You are about to be replaced.

You may have to think about a smaller car, or a new home for the kids’ ponies.

Maybe not this year, but it won’t be long.

A reminder for Doctors who think online records sold to, say, Google for ‘research purposes’ is okay.

Or that it’s okay for unproven medical treatment to be pushed upon the unwilling because of a public health emergency, and for you to be the one to deliver it:

The thanks you get for participating are that you are about to be replaced by a mobile app.

It will work like this. You’ll be, say, walking down the street. Your phone will be picking up on several biometric data points and sending them to the mothership, where AI will be deducing what illness you might have that you aren’t aware of.

The first you know about your developing illness will be that your phone will go PING!

Up will pop the diagnosis and a QR code for the prescription. You’ll have a limited time to get the prescription filled, or the authorities will be notified under an extension of public health emergency powers to ‘protect the public’ from the sick. The pills will contain a transponder and your phone will report whether or not you are taking them.

The GP or family doctor will be a thing of the past.

Please reconsider your involvement in this programme.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Disclaimer: predicting the future is not a precise science and cannot be relied upon. The above is an educated guess based on certain data points that are true, such as the storage online of medical records and the selling of such records to big tech companies such as Google, for research purposes. Please, everybody, especially those in health services, do your part to ensure it does not happen this way.