It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to heaven,
we were all going direct the other way.

── 《A tale of two cities》

人工智能（AI）或许是近些年来最热的词之一了，从接连打败李世石和柯洁的Alphago，到Amazon、京东、小米竞相推出的智能音箱，再到Uber、Google和百度都在研制的无人驾驶汽车，我们都能感受到人工智能切实的来到了我们周围。

在医疗领域，人工智能的发展也是如火如荼。机器人诊断眼底病变图像优于人类医生的研究论文登上了顶级学术杂志，IBM的Watson机器人医生正式进入中国服务病患，众多的影像辅助诊断软件也正在兴起，无怪乎有人放出豪言：未来30年内医生将要失业。

那么问题来了，人工智能会取代医生吗？

我认为无法完全取代，但会给现行医疗模式带来不小的冲击。

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