Doc-in-a-box: Pervasive self treatment and diagnosis
Wild Card's progress: fully-fledged
This Wild Card came from:
Workshops/Meetings
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
United Kingdom
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
February 2010
The source of this Wild Card:
UK Workshop - Nano group
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050
Wild Card's description
Nano-enabled self diagnosis and self treatment becomes pervasive. This would allow the general public to diagnose, monitor and treat illness themselves having their own ‘Doc in a Box’. Doctors may become redundant and the ageing population could increase. There would also be large scale unemployment of medical professionals.
