MedicoPlexus

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY – VARNA 

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS 

Student session:  

“Biophysics – clinical applications”  

(principles, concepts, methods) 

The Future of Human Healing: The Potentialities of 

Curing Chronic Disease via Integrated Cybernetic 

Systems  

(Image credit: Okinawa Research Institute)

William Peach, “Medicine”, 1st course, 22 grp.  

2018 

Accompanying PDF – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PxoKPZhCgCsbew3PJpCoqLPxoMRsUBVM/view?usp=sharing

Introduction 

We are at an exciting time in medicine. Continued development in the technology sector has allowed today’s medical practitioners to dream of tools and treatments never before imagined. At the crux of this lies cybernetics; systems that allow instantaneous feedback and self-correction that vary in complexity but offer up exciting new ways of solving some of healthcare’s most pertinent issues. 

The focus of this presentation is to take aim at some of these developments, and chart, where possible, the future of human healing concerning the implementation and integration of cybernetic systems.  

The key questions lying at the forefront of this voyage into the technological capabilities of the future are two simple ones. How efficient might new cybernetic systems, those that interlink components of the human body with those of mechanical or machine parts, be at curing chronic disease? And how likely is it that, as future medical professionals, we will be using or interacting with these systems to help solve healthcare issues any time soon?