Intruziunea tehnologiei! Diluarea medicinei. Stare de confuzie personală?
Technological Infusion! Medical Diffusion. Personal Confusion?

Summary/Abstract: This text provides an analysis of the medical situation today, increasingly dependent on technology to the detriment of establishing personal relationships between doctors and patients. Every detail and every minute of our lives confi rm an overwhelming predominance of technology. Not only has technology taken control over our actions, but it is about to dictate who we are. Especially in medicine and liberal arts, the relationship between man and technology is not limited to simple contact and reciprocal interaction; it has become more like a relationship of inter-habitation and assimilation. The infusion of technology in medicine has signifi cantly lowered mortality and increased life expectancy; it has opened a path to new surgical interventions with increased complexity. Technology has given a new boost to medical science, medical research, and medical practice; it has crucially infl uenced and transformed the doctor’s mentality, the nature of his vocation, as well as the relationship between medicine and society as a whole. Machines seem to have taken a dominant position in the process of making a medical diagnosis, while the medical practitioners are mere observers and the patients are absent. Yet, personal communication emphasizes the uniqueness of a person, while the standardization of technical procedures only undermines it. Ultra technologically improved health coincides with the weakening of human feelings and the disintegration of man’s spiritual qualities.

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