Medicine And Technology

Technology in medicine and daily life.

According to the American dictionary, the word “technology” is
the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and theirinterrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science. (P. Guillen, 2001, Big Technological Stories)
And weall now how useful it can be. But, besides having its bright side, it has a dark one too.

Before technology, people were not used to being connected or in contact all the time, if you wanted toknow something you couldn’t just Google it. You had to go to the library, find a book about it or check out the old collection of encyclopedias your dad had on the study room.

Technology made manybreakthroughs in the history of humanity. One of the biggest of them all was he invention of the vapor machine, now known as train along with cars and airplanes and later on computers, laptops,cellphones, etc. (E. Mock, Samanez, 1999, Technology or Medicine)

When we hear technology, many of us think about an iPhone, an iPad, clonation, and many other things. But what we really don’t thinkabout, is the main use of this brilliant evolutionary discovery: medicine. Which is the art or science of restoring or preserving health or due physical condition, as by means of drugs, surgicaloperations or appliances, or manipulations: often divided into medicine proper, surgery, and obstetrics. (R. Galán, Moron, 2004, Medicine Development During the Years XX-XXI)


Now, what would be ofmedicine without technology? how could doctors save life, operate, how would doctors reduce woman’s pain while giving birth, how would people with terminal cancer live longer than 2 years when beingdiagnosed?

If you think about it, medicine is nothing without technology. Yes, medicine saved lives before it, but now, the art of saving lives is easier every day and ever more accurate. (SNMMI, 2003,...