Before we get into Criswell's next past future prediction, I was watching the Jamie Kennedy Experiment the other night, and Kennedy dressed up so that he could sit inside one of those fortune-telling machines for one of his hidden camera gags.
The name Kennedy chose for his fortune-telling alter-ego?
Caswell.
More than a coincidence, I think.
Now, forward to the past:
I predict that by 1982, that a full medical education will require six months of study. The reason for the shortening of medical education is simple: Everything in medicine will be automated, and a course to qualify one as a medical doctor will require only knowledge of how to operate the proper computers and other equipment.
--The Amazing Criswell
Not a whole great deal of medicine is automated even now in 2007. Sure, orthopods sometimes use robots to prepare hips and knees for a prosthesis, but that's the exception and it hasn't shrunk medical training noticeably.
I think it's worth recalling some dialogue from the film "Ed Wood" at this point.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Say, Cris, how'd you know we'd be
living on Mars by ... ?
The Amazing Criswell: I guessed.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Really?
The Amazing Criswell: I made it up.
Criswell, in his prediction about medicine, went on to say
Doctors themselves will be looked upon as merely public servants of the government, who will license the doctor and set fees for him, exactly as they will for plumbers, carpenterss, and sewer workers.
If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in 2008, maybe.
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