Canadian physician, Dr. William Osler said, “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” With the healthcare field being so vital to society, it is an important thing to consider when thinking about new technologies in this particular field. Consequently, this is such a vital field for a person’s health and well-being. There are multiple things that are wonderful about technology. The field of healthcare has benefitted and people in several ways, such as a better ability to communicate with foreign patients, overall accuracy, progress in medical research, new medicine, and more time spent on patient care, and the healthcare field needs to utilize …show more content…
With the advancements made, many diseases and illnesses have demised thanks to medical technology. Just think, if a person has a headache, he or she would usually take a form of drugstore pain reliever. That pain reliever did not simply get there on its own, but it was made with the help of technology. In 1950, Advil was made for the specific use of easing the pain of those with inflamed joints. Being that was sixty - five years ago, many advancements have been made since then. Within the past decade, many vaccines have been made in order to stop and prevent the spread of cancer. Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. According to the FDA, The Federal Food and Drug Administration, two types of cancer vaccines have been approved. Both are used to prevent seventy percent of the types of cervical cancer. In a statement given by The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the organization stated, ¨The FDA has approved two vaccines, Gardasil® and Cervarix®, that protect against infection by the two types of HPV—types 16 and 18—that cause approximately 70 percent of all cases of cervical cancer worldwide.” Without the help of technology, many lifesaving vaccines may have not been made. Technology has played a key role in the level of medical diagnoses that have been made within the past …show more content…
With technology in healthcare, there are leaps and bounds being made. There is an ability to communicate with foreign patients, which increases accuracy and prevents mistakes. Much like the vaccine, which prevents types of cervical cancer, there are many studies being performed in order to look at preventing other kinds of diseases, the EHRs are much more effective in communicating with other doctors, and the patients feel as though the doctors are much more organized. The healthcare field is doing its part in keeping up in this mobile and technologically savvy world. Just like the Roman philosopher, Seneca said, ”People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his