Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

Medical technology: New frontiers in health care 155

Medical technology Uses and advantages

d. Telemedical networks in homes

Robotic technology

a. Robotic surgery

b. Medical robots

Nanotechnology

Stem cell research

Critical thinking

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EXERCISE

Making evaluationsIndicate which of the following technologies you think will

be available (✓) or not available (X) in hospitals and health care centers in your city

in the next decade. Give reasons to support your answers.

1. Complete personal medical records on computer chips


2. Robots that deliver pharmaceuticals inside a hospital


3. Home telehealth units


4. Remote telemedical robotic surgery conducted by a surgeon located in another
   country or on another continent


5. Nanoscale cancer-killing machines that travel through the body


6. Artiicial heart transplants


7. Robotic brain surgery


8. Smart alarms in hospitals that instruct doctors what to do in an emergency