The end of medicine as we know it - and why your health has a future

The book "The End of Medicine" predicts the end of medicine as we know it due to the deep crisis of medicine. However, digitization will lead to a radical change in healthcare, making it more precise, uniform, safer, and affordable. Physicians will become patient coaches working in interdisciplinary teams, and illnesses such as cancer will be prevented or cured. Health care spending will shift from chronic treatment to prevention and health maintenance, resulting in significant cost savings.

Format: Hardback
Length: 291 pages
Publication date: 04 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Medicine itself is ailing. We barely comprehend any disease, and as a result, we must constantly treat symptoms rather than the root causes. As a result, medications and other treatments only benefit a small number of patients; yet, we are pouring more and more money into our healthcare system without any additional benefit. As a result, the internationally renowned physician researcher Harald Schmidt predicts the end of medicine as we know it.

On a positive note, digitization will revolutionize healthcare and lead to one of the greatest socioeconomic revolutions in human history. He is a pioneer in systems medicine, a complete redefinition of what we actually call a disease, how we organize medicine, and how we use Big Data to heal rather than treat, to prevent rather than cure.

In this book, the author first demonstrates the deep crisis of medicine, but then describes how medicine will become more precise, uniform, safer, and surprisingly, also more affordable. Artificial intelligence will take over the diagnosis. Current, mainly organ-based medical specialists, disciplines, and hospital departments will disappear. Physicians will become patient coaches working in interdisciplinary teams with pharmacists, physiotherapists, nutritionists, and others, relieving them of their workload. Illnesses, including cancer, will be prevented or cured precisely. We will live to be 100 years old. Health care spending will shift from chronic disease treatment to prevention and health maintenance, dramatically reducing overall costs. Health will become a common good.

Harald Schmidt also warns that those who are not open to digitization will not benefit from these advances and will be left behind. Anyone who wants to benefit from the medicine revolution must have a digital twin. Is this futurism? No, each of us has a digital twin.

Weight: 685g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030952921
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022