Technology is always changing. Look around are world, each day new products come out that try to help us make our daily lives easier. Unfortunately people don’t look at the negatives of technology. For example, a person playing their i Pods/mp3’s at high volume. This is the beginning of hearing loss throughout a young person’s life. Although this can easily be avoided by just turning your music down, people don’t seem to realize that technology is supposed to help you, not harm you. The progression of technology is the most noticeable in the medical department.
Technology plays a big role in medicine. It has made operations go more smoothly, it also helps diagnose a patience symptom quicker, so that the patient may receive early treatment. Technology in the form of machines, systems, and instruments has helped medical, the recovery of patients, and lessened the pain one goes through. There are many medical machines that help things go smoothly in hospitals. For example, the X-ray machine. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the first X-ray when a image cast appeared from his cathode ray generator. From there, Röntgen gave this new form of radiation it’s the name “x-ray” x standing for unknown. The x-ray machine allows doctors to see under the skin, to examine the bones in order to look for breaks or factures. Another important medical machine used is an ultrasound machine, Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik of Austria and Professor Ian Donald of Scotland developed the ultrasound machine in the 1950’s. The purpose of the ultrasound machine is what’s inside the body, much like and x-ray machine, it can help spot a tumour, analyze bone, or commonly used for examining the health of an unborn baby.
Without the help of these two machines, diagnose a person’s illness would be very tough. The purpose of these medical machines and others that I haven’t mentioned is to help doctors find the symptoms behind a person’s illness earlier. Without these machines it would be hard to find the issue of a person walking into a hospital. You would have to try and do your complete diagnosis by only what you could see outside of the body and what the person is describing to you. As time goes by technology will continue to grow and newer and smarter machines will be created to continue to help find the cures for diseases, such as cancer. One thing’s for certain, without technology our lives would be much different. But with the help of technology and medicine, we can continue to look for cures and save the lives of people in need.
