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Technology and Medicine
Summary: The rapid development has done a lot in the field of
medicine helping more and more people every day. The advance use
of technology makes research and development work easier and fast.
Technology and the medical health field go hand in hand. If you
don’t believe me, take a look around the doctors’ office, or step
into a hospital ER entrance sometime. Tell me how many medical
health care machines you see, and how many you actually recognize.
The technological advances that have come to the medical health
field in recent decades have truly been astounding. There are more
ways than ever to diagnose a health problem, and you can get so
many more details in a less invasive way than ever before. CAT
scans, MRI’s, and other radiological machines are all so much more
advanced than they used to be that if you haven’t seen one for
five years, you probably wouldn’t recognize it.
New X-ray machines and other radiological equipment now put out
much less radiation than they used to, and are getting a much more
detailed picture of things, as well. Radiologists can now see
great amounts of detail in X-rays, CAT scans, and MRI’s, ending
the days where they would slice a person open for ‘exploratory
surgery’ to try to determine the problem. Although that still has
to happen sometimes, it is much less common than it used to be,
and is normally only done with extreme cases of cancer where the
cancerous cells are blocking the view of the health care
supercomputers. Yes, medical science has advanced greatly through
the use of highly technological methods, and continues to do so
more and more every year.
The most interesting thing I’ve seen in recent years could
eventually become the next major step in medical advances. This is
cloning. They have successfully cloned a sheep, and I look forward
to the day when I can hear people all over the place arguing over
whether human cloning should be legalized for medical treatments.
I believe that it should be much more interesting than the
‘medical marijuana’ argument ever was. However, I’m going to start
this argument right now, if I may. With the technology of cloning
available to us, it is conceivable that a person could live for an
indefinite amount of time. Cloning has many very distinct medical
and health related uses that should be apparent to all. It is now
possible to recreate an individual’s body. If we can find a way to
transfer memories, or perhaps even just do a brain transplant,
that body could be a replacement for an older or injured body, and
the person who was injured, decrepit, or dying would then be given
a new lease on life, with a new body to keep it going.
Theoretically, this could be the way in which we can all live to
see hundreds, if not thousands of years of human history. It’s
conceivable that we could actually live to see the end of the
world personally, even if it doesn’t come for a few millennia.
Now, with all of that going on, and the possibilities that are
hanging in front of us, on the verge of being discovered through
legitimate medical research, can you honestly believe that it’s
possible that technology and medical business will keep separate
and have nothing to do with each other?
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