Thanks, if I get the occasion, I will be trying to get in touch with Dr. Emery Brown. I actually happen to currently work at a Harvard-affiliated hospital in Bo

Thanks, if I get the occasion, I will be trying to get in touch with Dr. Emery Brown. I actually happen to currently work at a Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston. On the subject of MD-PhDs, I agree with you on many points. I would still be happy to see the level of basic science capabilities in candidates increase. For example, in my country of origin, a lot of the program is devoted to fundamental biology. While this is indeed useful, I think a fully-fledged MD-PhD should absolutely have basics in fluid mechanics and computer programming/scripting. Being an anesthesiologist myself, I must however admit that I am quite skeptical regarding current automated systems. In time, anesthesiology, surgery (which I think will be the first to go completely), and most of medicine will be performed by machines. The current rate of major complication related to anesthetic care is very, very low. And until they can demonstrate a benefit of automation on those grounds, I would be wary of such machines. This does also mean that the population sample required to demonstrate said benefit will be very, very big. Now if you are evaluating that on grounds of cost-effectiveness, I am quite sure we could already replace most anesthsiologists and surgeons, at the price of many, many more deaths.