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Medical Workplace Research Paper

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Medical Workplace: Clinic and Hospital Technology
The medical workplace has been around for many decades. The medical work place has allowed hospitals and clinics to make prominent expansions all over the Missouri. While these expansions have resulted in easier access for patients, the technology in both hospitals and clinics have helped patients as well. Even though the advancements of technology has helped the medical field in many ways such as going to an all-electronic charting system, advancements in radiological technology, and many more, there are a lot of work that has gone to make these technologies available to both the clinics and hospitals.
Hospital Setting
According to American Hospital Directory, there are a total of 89 hospitals …show more content…

The CT is also known as a CAT scan, and was first discovered in 1972. Godfrey Hounsfield, a British engineer, invented the CT along with help from Allan Cormack of South Africa. Hounsfield worked for EMI Laboratories in England, and Cormack was a physicist at Tufts University located in Massachusetts. The first CT was a full body machine and was available for us by the 1980’s. When the first CT’s were distributed, only about 6,000 of them were distributed in the United States, whereas 30,000 were distributed around the world. In the beginning, the CT machine delivers imagines that were not available before. However, they were not the best of quality, and took quite some time to gather. Now CT scanners can collect almost perfect images in seconds (“Brief history of CT”). In the end, the CT machine has come a long way, and is very beneficial for hospitals to …show more content…

They can play crucial part in determining what can be wrong with a patient. The first X-ray was discovered in 1985 by Wilhelm Roentgen, a German scientist (Cite-radiology history). X-rays are described as “electromagnetic energy waves that act similarly to light rays, but at wavelengths approximately 1,000 times shorter than those of list” (German scientist discovers x-rays). The first X-ray was in use during the Balkan war. During this time in 1897, they used the X-ray to determine if there were any bullets in the soldiers, or to find if they had any broken bones. Although the X-ray was found very helpful, scientist later started to discover the effects that the radiation could have on the patient. The event that caused the entire scientist community to raise concern. They realized that the effects of X-ray could cause patients to end up with burns and possibly cancer. After several reports of burns and the death of Clarence Dally (due to cancer form working with X-ray), these events raised concern for many. Scientist and doctors became aware of the risk X-rays imposes, and started to take precautions to protect them and the patients. Thanks to this discovery, many patients and x-ray technicians now are required to wear lead aprons. These aprons help protect against the radiation x-rays give off. The technician also have to wear a dosimeter. A dosimeter measures the amount of radiation the technician receives while

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