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Journal of the Indian Institute of Science ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 , DOI: 10.1007/s41745-020-00197-y
G K Ananthasuresh 1
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Four years ago, I had the privilege of meeting a distinguished retired scientist couple from Mysuru, Drs. D. Rajagopal Rao and Vijaya Rao. Their generous endowment helped set up a laboratory for biomedical research in the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering in IISc. That was not the only gift they gave. I had a personal gain in my interaction with them when Dr. Rajagopal Rao mentioned, in a conversation over dinner, a book with a tantalizing title The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, which he said I must read. He even took the trouble of writing the name of the author ‘James Le Fanu’ on a paper napkin. I promptly got a copy of the book which was the second edition published in 2011, while the first edition was in 1999. More than a decade after the first edition, the author proclaimed in the preface to the second edition that “the pattern of rise and fall... still holds”. I was curious to know what ‘fall’ the author was referring to, although I could well imagine the ‘rise’. At about that time, Prof. Vijay Chandru, the guest editor of this issue, sowed the seed of a ‘digital hospital’ in my head. I simultaneously read Le Fanu’s book, which chronicles the history of modern medicine in the twentieth century, and browsed the internet for information on the latest advances in telemedicine and digital health in the twenty-first century. The book is a wellresearched and well-articulated tome of 500 pages as compared to the tidbits of incoherent information one can glean from the internet. The contrast was jarring at times not because I was reading about the same subject as it developed in two different centuries or because of the difference between an organized printed book and haphazard online sources, but because of the conspicuous differences in perspectives and approaches to the same problem—to heal patients. Le Fanu refers to the 3 decades from the 1940s as the period of rise of modern medicine. He describes the factors and the mindset that led to 12 big triumphs from the discovery of antibiotics and steroids to the development of open-heart surgery, implants, and transplantation. The major G. K. Ananthasuresh* J. Indian Inst. Sci.

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四年前,我有幸见到了来自迈索尔的一对杰出的退休科学家夫妇,Drs。D. Rajagopal Rao 和 Vijaya Rao。他们的慷慨捐赠帮助在 IISc 的生物系统科学与工程中心建立了一个生物医学研究实验室。这不是他们送的唯一礼物。当 Rajagopal Rao 博士在晚餐时的一次谈话中提到一本标题诱人的书《现代医学的兴衰》时,我在与他们的互动中获得了个人收获,他说我必须阅读这本书。他甚至不厌其烦地在餐巾纸上写下作者的名字“James Le Fanu”。我很快拿到了这本书的副本,它是 2011 年出版的第二版,而第一版是 1999 年出版的。在第一版十多年后,作者在第二版的序言中宣称,“上升和下降的模式……仍然存在”。我很想知道作者指的是什么“下降”,尽管我可以很好地想象“上升”。大约在那个时候,本期的客座编辑 Vijay Chandru 教授在我脑海中播下了“数字医院”的种子。我同时阅读了 Le Fanu 的书,该书记录了 20 世纪现代医学的历史,并浏览了互联网以获取有关 21 世纪远程医疗和数字健康的最新进展的信息。与可以从互联网上收集到的不连贯信息的花絮相比,这本书是一本经过充分研究和清晰阐述的 500 页大部头。这种对比有时很刺耳,不是因为我阅读的主题是在两个不同世纪发展起来的,也不是因为有组织的印刷书籍和随意的在线资源之间的差异,而是因为观点和方法的明显差异。问题——治愈病人。Le Fanu 将 1940 年代以来的 3 个十年称为现代医学的兴起时期。他描述了导致 12 项重大胜利的因素和心态,从发现抗生素和类固醇到开发心脏直视手术、植入物和移植。主要的 GK Ananthasuresh* J. Indian Inst。科学。而是因为对同一问题的看法和方法的显着差异——治愈病人。Le Fanu 将 1940 年代以来的 3 个十年称为现代医学的兴起时期。他描述了导致 12 项重大胜利的因素和心态,从发现抗生素和类固醇到开发心脏直视手术、植入物和移植。主要的 GK Ananthasuresh* J. Indian Inst。科学。而是因为对同一问题的看法和方法的显着差异——治愈病人。Le Fanu 将 1940 年代以来的 3 个十年称为现代医学的兴起时期。他描述了导致 12 项重大胜利的因素和心态,从发现抗生素和类固醇到开发心脏直视手术、植入物和移植。主要的 GK Ananthasuresh* J. Indian Inst。科学。
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