Futuristic Medicine: Robots Allow Physicians to Treat Patients Miles Away – ABC News

Physicians Can Take Vital Signs, Read X-Rays and Perform Exams
By TRACEY MARX
Aug. 23, 2009—
Welcome to the future, where your doctor could be hundreds of miles away.
Hospitals long have been a place to use new technologies, and the latest is aimed at helping doctors treat patients in rural areas, where hospitals don’t have access to specialized [...]

Futuristic Medicine: Robots Allow Physicians to Treat Patients Miles Away – ABC News

Welcome to the future, where your doctor could be hundreds of miles away.
Hospitals long have been a place to use new technologies, and the latest is aimed at helping doctors treat patients in rural areas, where hospitals don’t have access to specialized doctors.
The practice, known as telemedicine, is on the rise. According to Datamonitor, hospitals [...]

The Return of Sci-Fi: Texas Hospital Patients May Soon Be Talking To Robots

By: Pat Carpenter
Your doctor may soon be a robot, or so the whispers warn. Sound like something out of a bad science-fiction movie? Well, maybe you should ask whichever physician shows up on-screen of the RP-7 Remote Presence Robotic System by InTouch Technologies, a maneuverable robotic system designed to allow physicians to videoconference with their [...]