The medical industry requires doctors and nurses to be highly precise and accurate in their work because they have lives at stake. A person without experience and properly tested skills can’t operate or treat a patient. However, you can’t blame the nurses for not having experience of treating a ‘living’ human body during their studies. They can’t be allowed to handle real patients before completing their training. But what if they had something similar to real patients to treat upon?
The scientists of the Northeastern University came together with the doctors to build special kind of robots for the medical students to treat upon during their training period. These robots have been programmed to show emotions and symptoms according to the disease they are infected with. They can blink, cry, scream when in pain, urinate, and even bleed. Certain types of robots are programmed to show stimulations for some particular treatments like delivering a baby, deep cuts, organ transplants, and many other major diseases. These robots put the medical students in real-life situations of handling a patient in severe pain. Also, they are programmed to respond to certain questions that are commonly asked to real patients when they are admitted. The nurses are aware of the patients being robots but they are instructed to treat them as real human beings and with utmost care. Since the control is in the doctor’s hands, the stimulations are made extra stressful intentionally for the nurses to treat so that they are completely ready when they operate on a living person.
This invention of technology has helped the medical industry to improve its learning programs and produce highly skilled nurses and doctors. It has helped to make the students mentally stronger to deal with tough and highly stressful situations and helps them learn how to make the right decision at the right time to save the life of living beings by practicing on non-living beings.
Luvpreet Singh