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Meet the robot helping with health checks at a doctor's office in Scotland

A general practitioner's (GP) office in Scotland has been using a robot to help take patients through health checks. The robot, called Temi, was being used as part of a trial in collaboration between Erskine Medical Practice in Dundee and The National Robotarium and Edinburgh Business School at Heriot Watt University. Temi could guide patients through a series of checks including, height, weight, blood pressure and oxygen saturation. His doctor, Gillian Chin said the checks performed by Temi saved 50% of consultation time.

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Transcript
00:04Hello, welcome to the self-screening health check pod. You can talk to me as if you were talking to
00:09a human.
00:13Please follow me to the examination room. It's this way.
00:23It's a bit odd to deal with a robot at first, but you get used to it quite quickly.
00:37I go along, I sit ten minutes waiting to be called. The GP then takes my blood pressure, my pulse,
00:43all that sort of stuff and leaves me two minutes at the end of the session to explain what I
00:50need done.
00:51I'd be much happier having my recordings done by the machine in that ten minutes that I'm sitting waiting.
00:58Right, let's have a look at your readings.
01:02The next thing to do would be just to have readings and they're looking tip-top.
01:06You can actually save 50% of the consultation and that saving allows you to do one of two things.
01:12You can see another patient in that timeframe so you could double your capacity or you could actually take that
01:18time and spend it with the patient and really go into the details about how you can improve their care.
01:24Your reasoning is that having you would be related to the patients' medial have for their staffers.
01:28Our heart is very clear.
01:30We will have to deal with one of two things.
01:30We are not getting a lot of people.
01:31We have to deal with a lot with some of the three things.
01:32We have to deal with a lot of problems.
01:32We have to deal with a lot of problems that we have.
01:38We have to deal with a lot of problems with the patients.
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