HSS 2121 Lecture 19: History Lecture 19
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Technology and medicine: ct, pet and mri scanners common today in hospitals, both positives and negatives, e. g. save lives but expensive 10432$ Can be made obsolete with updates: mri for your dog! You could get it quicker for your dog than yourself - more available for vets than docs. You"re paying for dog mri and gov is paying for you (private payer for animals: positron emission tomography (pet) scan, computerized tomography (ct) scan, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) Holter monitor: holter monitors: measures and tape records your heart"s activity (ecg) continuously for 24 to 48 hours or longer, can determine if you"re having heart uctuations, electronic thermometers and automatic blood pressure cu s - commonplace. Medical technology: highly interdisciplinary, with a focus on design, combining elds like biochemistry, cellular physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, and physiology with engineering principles, creation and development of biomedical systems and devices.