2023-06-08 13:09:19
The world we fear, the world we want was the title of the second day of Santander WomenNOW. All the presentations revolved around the fear and doubts that technological and digital advances generate in us and the answer always coincided: the human factor.
Domingo Marzal, cardiologist, specialist in digital transformation of health, made it clear from the beginning in the round table
What’s wrong with me… robot? This will be the medicine of the future: “Medicine is not going to be dehumanized. It is under construction and we have to build it together.
Pilar Garrido, head of the Medical Oncology Service of the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, and the cardiologist Domingo Marzal. /
Technology has reached the medical world to improve patient care,
diagnosis, prevention and research. Marzal and Pilar Garrido, head of the Medical Oncology Service at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, agreed on this at the panel chaired by Pancho G. Castilla, a journalist for Vocento.
artificial intelligence and medicine
“Today, data and artificial intelligence (AI) are going to help us do it well,” insisted Marzal. «With AI, you will continue to be a patient cared for by a doctor, but simultaneously there will be 10,000 people caring for you at the same time, coordinated with all the knowledge available at the moment to give the best possible recommendation at that moment. We will be able to look you in the eye, we will be 10,000 doctors attending even if you only have one person in front of you ».
Pilar Garrido, Head of the Medical Oncology Service at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital. /
“The difference between a more or less virtuous doctor will be less and less and you will value us more for human capabilities,” continued Marzal.
At that point,
Pilar Garrido He showed his doubts. “I still think that what AI brings also depends on what you feed it with.” But the oncologist also celebrated the visible and tangible technological advance in the present. “We are in a wonderful moment, in the field of cancer, specifically, it has to do with genomic knowledge, and with extraordinary technological development,” she explained. «Every five years we have a revolution with infinite possibilities that has made it possible to advance in preventive medicine, in early diagnosis, but also in anticipating the peculiarities of each individual to get ahead of ourselves. We are in a wonderful moment in relation to where we have been.
Telemedicine and biomedicine
Technological advances in health are being seen specifically in two changes: telemedicine and biomedicine. The first impacts the diagnosis; the second, in the investigation.
To talk about the first, Domingo Marzal turned the ratio he had mentioned before upside down. “The
telemedicine It will make it possible for a professional to monitor 100,000 people at the same time, 200,000, 500,000… That seems to clash a bit with personalized medicine, but I am able to collect the information that we have everywhere –We have 60 billion sensors collecting information–, a team will monitor 100 thousand people and when it detects an alteration in a person, it will send an alert. It will make us anticipate and put the focus on prevention. It will change the direction of the relationship between doctor and patient: «We, the doctors, will begin to say: I am going to the patient».
Cardiologist Domingo Marzal, in Santander WomenNOW. /
Pilar Garrido, by her side, agreed on the importance of these advances, of genetic knowledge and technological tools, but once again turned her attention to the person. “Even though we have a machine and a drug, it is important to
individual responsibility As a citizen, we each have to be responsible for our health,” he said. Not smoking, taking care of the diet, exposure to the sun… he gave as examples. “We cannot rest in the fact that medicine will solve everything for us without doing anything on our part.”
Gender inequality in medicine
Lastly, at a conference on women it was important to speak at this round table about the inequality that also affects medicine. “It is a feminized profession,
80% of students are women, but that proportion is lost in senior positions in all organizations and fields, regardless of the specialty,” Garrido highlighted. «And gender medicine happens. Sometimes it does happen that women go to the doctor later, but also that the symptoms appear later or that genetic differences or drug toxicity have not been studied. And, therefore, an urgent conclusion. “It is necessary to give more opportunity to women leading in the different fields of medicine.”
Consolidated as the most important conference on female leadership in Europe, Santander WomenNOW is an annual international summit that has already attended more than 150 leading speakers and has exceeded two million views of its conferences, interviews and round tables. The fifth edition of the congress, which has the support of Banco Santander as a Global Partner and the sponsorship of Cepsa, Citroën, Heineken, Iberia, Inditex, L’Oréal Paris, Multiópticas and Novartis, is held in the El Beatriz auditorium in Madrid and It is broadcast live through mujerhoy.com, but also in all the newspapers of the Vocento group, including abc.es, elcorreo.com, diariovasco.com and lasprovincias.es.
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