Perspective – Offline: Touch—The First Language

Offline: Touch—the first language – The Lancet (free)

Related: Of Slide Rules and Stethoscopes: AI and the Future of Doctoring – The Hastings Center Report (free)

Related Commentary on Twitter

"The physical examination seems to have become an anachronism, a vestigial remnant, of clinical care."
"The avoidance of touch is bad medicine." https://t.co/Zdq63syG0e by @richardhorton1 @TheLancet
like the plea for this in #DeepMedicine to make #healthcare more human again pic.twitter.com/0bb9arjWdu

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 11, 2019