Defensive Medicine in an Era of Ever-Expanding Technology

Abstract

The practice of defensive medicine is set in a medical world of expanding exponentials, including artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, and robotics. The increases in knowledge in medicine are occurring at an exponential pace. In recent times, a successful healthcare company still could be run without being an artificial intelligence company. Those days are gone. We live in a post–information world in which applied knowledge arises from understanding, and, in fact, mastery, of context. One can apply medical knowledge well if one understands the context. Mastery of knowledge and context in medicine will have the potential to reduce defensive medicine.