What сan doctors offer? What can doctors help you with? What are they ready to prescribe? Pills, injections, surgical operations, and… a mobile app. And no, these aren’t the countless fitness apps for tracking steps or sleep movements. These are genuine digital medicine products whose effectiveness in treating a range of disorders is already considered proven.

Surgical robots are already part of modern medicine, but few people seem to realize it. The paradox is that the technology is advancing rapidly: new platforms, digital ecosystems, early clinical telesurgery protocols, and even laboratory demonstrations of partial autonomy are all emerging at once. Yet when you step into a hospital, things often look much the same as they did 5 to 10 years ago. Economics, regulation, and organizational barriers are a big part of the reason.

A child who is terrified of needles becomes so absorbed in a virtual world that they barely notice the vaccination happening. A stroke patient no longer has to monotonously repeat the same arm movement, but instead lifts a virtual sword to fight a dragon. And in the operating room, a surgeon can see digital anatomy aligned with the patient instead of constantly switching attention between the body and flat 2D scans.