My Health Upgraded

Book excerpt: Wearable gadgets monitor our health at home. Advances in 3D printing might eradicate transplantation waiting lists forever. Surgical robots are no longer just the stuff of sci-fi. Trained physician, researcher, and medical futurist Dr. Bertalan Mesko gives talks on the future of health care-highlighting how disruptive innovations let us keep the human touch in medicine rather than take it away. My Health : Upgraded : Revolutionary Technologies to Bring a Healthier Future answers questions like whether robots will ever take the job of physicians or whether we'll be able to predict diseases with genomics. To help illustrate his vision for the future, Dr. Mesko shares his own experiences with wearable, health-enhancing tech devices, providing a look at not only medicine now but also where it's heading. The catch ? The practice of medicine still needs that human touch.