Thanks GTO. Let me mention one more scary angle to this. Couple of years back I was talking to my uncle who is a doctor in USA. He has worked in India, UK and USA and is now practically retired. He was telling me that these days surgeons in the OT are so dependent on computers and other hi-tech equipments, if one of them fails during a surgery, the surgeon will be helpless, they are not trained to work without them, god save the patient. Also, he has met surgeons who are ignorant about human anatomy and physicians who can't do hands-on diagnosis. Most physicians these days order various lab tests based on external symtoms and derive their conclusions from the lab results rather than hands on diagnosis. It all started because of malpratice law suits resulting from few wrong diagnosis. Now nobody wants to take risk and avoid making any diagnosis until lab results are available. He says art of clinical diagnosis will soon be thing of a past in USA.
I can imagine a day when I visit a doctor he will feed my medical history and illness symtoms to a google like tool and read out the diagnosis.
