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Canadians Create Intelligent Medicine

Posted by timothy on from the please-don't-tell-the-hemlock-society dept.

RunAmuk writes "Engineers at the University of Calgary have developed a pill that, once swallowed, will determine how healthy or ill the patient is, and will release just the right amount of medicine accordingly, according to an article on Wired. As the sensors used in these pills grow more advanced are doctors going to be come obsolete except for real physical injuries? Of course, anyone who has been to a doctor in Canada understands that we need medicine that can do the diagnosis for them."

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  1. Ignorant American by MBCook · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "...Of course, anyone who has been to a doctor in Canada understands that we need medicine that can do the diagnosis for them."

    Would someone please explain this comment to me? I thought Canada was supposed to have a very good health care system. It's socialized, isn't it? I would think that not having to deal with all the HMO crap would lead to more time with paitents and hence better care?

    PS: as bad as some people say things are, I'd still rather have our current system than socialist medicine here in the US. Just my 2 cents so people don't think I'm trying to be political. Just wondered what the comment meant.

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  2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by narftrek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or is this how you gain karma? Post an article with a penile reference, then log in and point that fact out. And then log back out and bitch about the fact that you pointed the fact out?

    Nice try buddy.

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