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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

And I'm Sam. Are you feeling well, Sam? No, headache or sore throat?

No, I feel fine, thanks, Neil. Why do you ask?

Well, I've been reading some inspirational stories about the doctors and nurses fighting

COVID. When I was a boy, I always dreamed of becoming a doctor.

Ah, I see. Have you ever been in hospital?

Yes, I have, and I remember the nurses' bedside manner, you know, the kind and caring way

that doctors and nurses treat people who are ill. Nowadays, more and more of the jobs

that humans do are being carried out by machines. But I doubt that a doctor's bedside

manner could easily be replaced by a robot.

In this programme, we'll be discussing whether the revolution in artificial intelligence,

often shortened to AI, could replace human doctors and nurses. We'll be asking, can

you imagine a future without doctors?

In fact, machines are already doing some of the jobs traditionally done by doctors, scanning

people's bodies to detect skin cancer, for example.

Yes, that's true, Sam, and it links to my quiz question, which is about human skin.

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