Healthcare Futurist Pillows

'I hope you don't mind me bringing a few medical students in to see you. '

"I'm retiring, so on your next visit you'll be seen by two robots and an electron microscope."

The Future of Medicine

'I'm going to run a quick scan on you using my smart phone. I've downloaded some very sophisticated diagnostic apps.'

'Must be another of Obama's healthcare cost cutting.'

"The doctor says your vital signs are strong, but the IT guy says your portal password is weak."

'Our parents were replaced by machines - We'll be replaced with new software.'

"Whoever made Keir Starmer did a sound professional job."

Desperate to escape 2017, a scientist built his own time machine.

AI Safety Officer

'We don't have a cure for your ailment but there is an appropriate app available.'

'That's the diagnosis of my diagnostic desktop. If you want a second opinion, I'll ask my diagnostic tablet.'

Health Care Crisis table.

ROBOT EMPLOYMENT AGENCY, 'We don't have much on hand right now --how'd you like to be a Pez dispenser?'

"I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care."

STRIP Hambone: Humanoid computers

'Brain surgery? I have an app for that!'

"We probably need to rethink our revenue strategy for the practice."

"As your new President I shall govern by algorithm."

Patent Office: ". . . It's a phoneless cord."

The Before-You-Know It-It'll-Be-Obsolete Computer Company

"So you're saying that by the end of this century tarpits will be phased out and replaced by microwave technology."

"I'm starting up a concierge medicine practice. You in?"

Waiting for the end of the acid-rain delay at the ballpark in the year 2258...

'We need a knee jerk reaction against private sector practices in the NHS!'

Education Plan

"I'm not an AI, I'm a human being."

"My brain got hacked!"

"If you keep perfectly still, I can do all five cavities at once."

Everyone Hates Obamacare. So It's Working.

'That was quick!'

'It won't take bitcoins.'

'This creature is supposed to have existed when the Earth was cooler, but so far no archaeological evidence has been found.'

"Labor Shortage? Why don't we just clone our employees"

The world of medicine as we know it, will end soon.