When it arrive to future depictions of vocation , things are always rather below the belt press towards the law enforcement slant – We ’ve ensure Robocop , Judge Dredd , Minority Report and evenFuture Cop . But who talks about the aesculapian profession of the futurity ? That was the thinking behind aesculapian blog Medgadget ’s Sci - Fi Writing Contest , the winners of which were annunciate this weekend .
The blog , which only announced the competition itselfon Hallowe’en , described it like this :
The challenger is designed to present to the public talented writers , among our readers and beyond , who opine the future of practice of medicine through fictional stories . Whether it is a hitherto unknown honorable dilemma that will amount up many years from now , or an imaginary engineering , we ca n’t wait to see this class ’s entries !
This year ’s winner was Different Day , Same Chip by Charles Pappas , a story that mixes calorific inlet , Twitter and RFID chips implant into the great unwashed just to keep track of their wellness … and update them on how much their next wellness indemnity defrayal is go to be on a even basis . Runner - up prizes went to 30 Minutes of Clinical Ethics by Kevin Bond and APA 4000 by Daniel Gow . you could read all three storieshere .
[ MedGadget ]
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