In my opinion technology had a major effect on Medicine, today is almost impossible to imagine hospitals and health centers without technological devices.
Nowadays to diagnose or treat a disease we use pieces of machinery designed to the effect like RXs or ultrasounds.
Technology also made the pharmaceutical industry much more productive and affordable to almost everyone.
Medicine is one of the fields that has developped the most in the last century, which is amazing. New tools, machines and devices provide a quality health care, sometimes not so affordable, but that's another story.
ReplyDeleteAs I said before, our life span increased exponentially thanks to advances in this field, especially in developed countries. In developing countries there's still a long way to go, unfortunately.
In Portugal, some diseases, such as tuberculosis, polio and smallpox have practically disappeared thanks to our eficient vaccine programme. And I really hope someday someone finds the cure for HIV and cancer, Medicine's biggest misteries at the time.