do NOT get an md degree. it is useless. in this era of corporate driven health care that is mass produced, physicians are glorified trades workers. Real impact in the tech of health care is done by engineers. Being a physician does not allow you to implement anything in the current medicolegal climate. And understanding the reality of health care delivery does not require an md degree. Witness all the lawyers pursuing suits for many of the tech advancements of yesteryear-artificial hips, slings, implants-not to mention medications.
Future development of health tech will get hamstrung by the same sort of thing except it will be driven by cyber failures and privacy violations. Physicians will remain the fall guy for any product failure. Better to get a phd in a product that has major health implications-for example, develop a sensor for blood sugar that is non invasive, develop an algorithm and an app that predicts MI and cardiac disease for an individual. etc.
We are currently importing our physicians because other countries produce them so cheaply (just like software engineers). And we pay them a fraction of what medical school tuition accumulates to.
Future development of health tech will get hamstrung by the same sort of thing except it will be driven by cyber failures and privacy violations. Physicians will remain the fall guy for any product failure. Better to get a phd in a product that has major health implications-for example, develop a sensor for blood sugar that is non invasive, develop an algorithm and an app that predicts MI and cardiac disease for an individual. etc.
We are currently importing our physicians because other countries produce them so cheaply (just like software engineers). And we pay them a fraction of what medical school tuition accumulates to.