Here’s
something which made me think. Many of my friends say that my job is something
akin to the tricorders waved around in Star trek by Doctors Phlox, McCoy, Crusher,
Bashir and the EMH, and it is those devices which will ultimately make me
redundant.
In
Star Trek a physician waves a tricorder over a patien t and it immediately
tells all that is wrong with said patient.
Of
course, things don’t really work that way.
Here’s
an interesting article which outlines just how difficult it is to assess
the damage done by smoking. No test gives a cut-and-dry answer to what the
doctors actually need to know…
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