Which discipline in medicine is the most technologically oriented?

[disque71]

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

 

[Houseness]

Radiology, by far...

 

[tupac_don]

Radiology, by far...

I have to agree radiology, interventional radiology more specifically, its at the forefront of technology.

 

[PhillyGuy]

Definitely not surgery, at least not general surgery.

 

[jonb12997]

radiation oncology...

 

[cdql]

Some urological surgery is very technically oriented! (I think I saw a TV show where robots were used in order to minimize the size of the incision and allow for maximum precision)

 

[getunconcsious]

I thought it was Psychiatry!

 

[fantasty]

ophtho

 

[mysophobe]

I dunno, I think I'll have to go with urology. Those robot-assisted prostatectomies are really neat-o.

 

[Blake]

Some urological surgery is very technically oriented! (I think I saw a TV show where robots were used in order to minimize the size of the incision and allow for maximum precision)

Da vinci ? I thought it was mainly for cardiac surgery. Radiology does seem like the most ''futuristic'' field out there. Too bad it's way too competitive for average folks...

 

[mysophobe]

No, they're doing tons of robot-assisted prostates. It's really cool. Dude sits in the corner of the room not even scrubbed and can do the whole case practically himself.

 

[DW3843]

I have posted this before but this thread is just as good a place as any to mention it again.

it's long but really is worth watching even if Urology isn't exactly your thing.

DaVinci prostatectomy:
http://www.or-live.com/vanderbilt/1227/

 

[Law2Doc]

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

I would have to go with radiology as well. Surgery is actually one of the fields losing turf (esp. to interventional radiology) because of lack of equivalent toys.

 

[anon-y-mouse]

I have posted this before but this thread is just as good a place as any to mention it again.

it's long but really is worth watching even if Urology isn't exactly your thing.

DaVinci prostatectomy:
http://www.or-live.com/vanderbilt/1227/

Wow... I just watched this... amazing!

Urology: no (or little) call/emergencies, relatively regular lifestyle, procedural, potential for lots of clinic when you're old and aren't nimble enough to perform the procedures... hmmmm.

 

[DrBowtie]

Radiology/Rad Onc

 

[sga814]

Eh- I'd say all specialities that are invasively-oriented are equally technologically advanced in their own ways.

 

[humuhumu]

Radiation oncology is definitely the most technologically oriented specialty I've seen personally. High tech from start to finish. Interventional radiology is a close second.

 

[MN81]

Da vinci ? I thought it was mainly for cardiac surgery. Radiology does seem like the most ''futuristic'' field out there. Too bad it's way too competitive for average folks...

Yeah, I just read a lit review from a classmate on Da Vinci. According to the review, Da Vinci is more commonly used for prostate surgery as of now.

I would guess Cardo will get bigger in the future.