Which discipline in medicine is the most technologically oriented?

[disque71]

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What do you guys think? I'll start it off. Surgery?

 

[Smurfette]

uh...I'd say radiology.

 

[Gut Shot]

If you want wall-to-wall medical computer doctor nerd action, think nuclear medicine.

 

[neutropenic]

Radonc.

 

[azzarah]

ophtho...you work with lasers all day. 🙂

 

[sandg]

Radonc.

Haven't hit the wards yet to know for sure, but this sounds like a good bet. Although I am unsure of their role in patient care, it seems that most academic rad-onc departments have a fair number of PhD physicists on staff.

 

[cfdavid]

Anesthesia works with some cool equipment. I'm leaning towards that field, but that could change as I haven't even started MS1 yet.

 

[UCSBMed1]

Anesthesia works with some cool equipment. I'm leaning towards that field, but that could change as I haven't even started MS1 yet.

This isn't something you can truly debate--only one field uses technology almost exclusively: Radiology (and Rad-Onc). You even have to take a physics examination to make sure you understand the principles behind Rads.

Anesthesia isn't even close--you're in the OR using meds all day, while a Radiologist is sitting in front of a COMPUTER screen, using MRI's, and CT scans. Now which one uses more technology???

 

[taekwondoc]

ortho is very dependent on technology... uses mri, ct recon, fluoro + all the power equipment in the OR and all the different hardware sets

 

[cfdavid]

This isn't something you can truly debate--only one field uses technology almost exclusively: Radiology (and Rad-Onc). You even have to take a physics examination to make sure you understand the principles behind Rads.

Anesthesia isn't even close--you're in the OR using meds all day, while a Radiologist is sitting in front of a COMPUTER screen, using MRI's, and CT scans. Now which one uses more technology???

Chill out you reject.

 

[UCSBMed1]

Chill out you reject.

Reject from what? I'm in med school already, bruh. Are you?

Learn how to insult someone man. 👎

 

[cfdavid]

Reject from what? I'm in med school already, bruh. Are you?

Learn how to insult someone man. 👎

O.k., I will. You're probably short with a small penis.

 

[UCSBMed1]

O.k., I will. You're probably short with a small penis.

I can laugh at that one too because nothing could be further from the truth. Ask you sister. 😉

 

[Adcadet]

Gotta agree with radiology, especially at academic medical centers running trials of new procedures/devices. I'm sure rad onc is also pretty advanced as well, as is neurosurgery with all their electrophysiology probes and imaging.

Anesthesiology has some cool toys, but it's not nearly as high tech as what I saw in radiology/IR/nuclear med. The data from a-lines, PACs, TEE, etc are cool, but are not exactly considered high tech anymore. The BIS monitors are about the most advanced devices I saw used in anesthesiology, and their just highly processed EEGs, a technology that have been around for decades, and I never saw a BIS reading significantly alter clinical practice.