A PROPHECY
DOCTORS AND TELEVISION
LONDON, November 2.
Sir Crisp English, the surgeon, giving the inaugural address to students of St. George’s . Hospital Medical School, London, yesterday, had something to say about doctors of twenty years hence. He prophesied: — Doctors will visit their patients by aeroplanes as frequently as by car today.
If they still prefer land travel, they will cruise along on great, wide motorways, at a comfortable 100 miles per hour. O'
Aeroplane 'ambulances will carry patients direct to and from hospitals.
With television/ forming an integral part of the.'otdinary ' telephone service, doctors Van inspect the tongues and tonsils of patients by television direct from the surgery desk.
Mother will hold lip her baby lor the doctor’s diagnosis by television.
Other predictions for 1956 included the installation, of automatic machines for medicine dispensing, and a great reduction in noise; unnecessary noise being made an indictable offence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1936, Page 2
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