It's Here

          As I mentioned way back in this post, I have to determined, without any question, that I not only want an iPad... I need an iPad.

          Sure.  Maybe my reasoning was a little thin.  Maybe I made a few leaps of logic in a rather difficult attempt to justify a near $1000 luxury purchase... but I think I still managed to get there.  It's worth it.  I think.  Humor aside though, I do think I can make a convincing argument that an iPad will be very helpful in medical school.  I'm just not quite sure if it's a 700 dollar argument.

Robot Doctors In Our Future?

WE HAVE MOVED TO: A Theory of Living  

       I just read this article, concerned with the possibility of doctors one day being replaced by robots.  I thought it was very interesting.  I am a bit of a technophile, and the thought of an iRobot style world, with robots to help us with all the different aspects of our lives literally makes me giddy.  Seriously... how cool would that be?

Awesome, or scary?  Your call.

          So I was reading about iRobot (a robotics company, not the movie this time) and how they have put a 6 million dollar investment into the healthcare company InTouch Health.  iRobot recently developed Ava, a robot with a tablet (Android or Apple or whatever) for a head and a robots body.  They are hoping that this robot, the first step along the way towards personal robots, would be able to be used in a healthcare setting in the near future.  This could be something simple, such as following doctors to help them manage patients' information or vitals or whatever, to something more complex such as educating patients about their disease when other healthcare professionals are occupied.  I thought this was really cool!

Peyton

          Although it's been a long time in coming, Peyton Manning was officially released from the Colts today.  The press conference and his farewell speech were heartbreaking, upsetting enough that I can't actually recommend anyone watch it.   His voice was hoarse, and he was close to tears through the whole thing.  He was a stand up guy, though, and I really hope he does well on whatever team he ends up with in the next few weeks (hopefully not the Broncos or the Chiefs, two Raiders rivals that are apparently in the hunt).