22.11.19

The future of medicine

A. Watch this video and answer the questions (check your answers in "comments").



  1. Why are billions of people alive today?
  2. What do we have treatments for today?
  3. In which fields have there been breathtaking advances?
  4. Where did this work originate?
  5. Who support this work?
  6. What has science made in the last centrury?
  7. What kind of future does the speaker imagine?
B. Watch the next video to see how technology is changing the healthcare system.



C. Watch the following video and fill in the gaps (you need between one and three words). Check your answers in "comments".

Robot-assisted surgery

- The Vinci Surgical System is a tool that allows us to do more _______________ (1) surgery through very small incisions.
- Smaller incisions speed _______________ (2).
- The surgeon is always in _______________ (3).

Metro medical glue

- Trauma patients with severe _______________ (4) need help fast and Metro medical glue will stop it in about _______________ (5).
- It can be used both _______________ (6).
- Metro will eliminate the need for stitching, for staples, and will _______________ (7) the procedure
- According to researchers at Harvard and Sydney universities, it's ready for _______________ (8).

The Excel white 3d printed cast system

- It promises _______________ (9) and a quicker recovery. T
- The patient's bone is scanned and a custom _______________ (10) cast is made in about a minute.
- It even has a sensor to monitor the _______________ (11).
- The company says they're close to_______________ (12).

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2 comments:

  1. Lumi22/11/19 9:27 am

    1. Because of life-saving, life altering, and life-sustaining treatments
    2. For countless life-threatening illnesses
    3. In gene editing and tissue engineering
    4. In labs
    5. Government, philanthropists, and venture capitalists
    6. Science has made some diseases curable,other diseases treatable, some even forgotten
    7. He imagines a future where health is taken for granted and illness is the exception.Where children are spared of hereditary diseases,even before they're born, and where no disease is ever a death sentence

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  2. Lumi22/11/19 9:56 am

    C.
    1. precise
    2. recovery time
    3. total control
    4. severe bleeding
    5. one minute
    6. externally and internally
    7. simplify
    8. human trials
    9. comfort
    10. waterproof
    11. healing process
    12. clinical trials

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