Answer to Question #220372 in Computer Networks for Sabotage

Question

. Computer Science is no more about computers than medicine is about stethoscopes. Do you agree with this statement or not; defend your answer with practical examples.

Answer 1

I totally agree as computers have become the way of living.

This is because technology has revolutionized the medicine field. Computers have changed the entire way of treatment, medical data analysis, diagnosis of patients e.g. lab tests on almost any disease use devices that have been programed to give accurate results.

Patient records are stored digitally on online databases which can be accessed by any authorized user. This improves efficiency as records can be retrieved timely.

Doctors are reaching out to patients through social media, nowadays we have e-doctors and one can reach out to them in real time so long as you have internet. More and more people search for medical issues on the internet first before heading to hospitals. We google for symptoms, effects of a particular medicinal drugs.