Perhaps no field in medicine has benefitted more from the introduction of new technologies
than radiology. From Roentgen’s use of cathode ray tubes to discover the X-ray, to
the new technologies that enabled Marie Curie to discover radioactivity, to Godfrey
Hounsfield’s invention of the CT scanner, new eras in radiology’s history have been
spawned by technological innovation. Yet radiologists have good reasons to avoid succumbing
to technophilia, an excessive love of technology at the expense of the human beings
on whom and by whom it is used. Sometimes our appetite for the new and clever gets
in the way of our common sense. When it comes to mere consumer electronics, the risks
are not so great, but because radiology exists for human beings in need of medical
care, the stakes are considerably higher.
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Published online: April 30, 2023
Accepted:
April 2,
2023
Received:
April 2,
2023
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