How Technology Is Changing the Medical Profession

April 22, 2009

Over the ages, medicine has drawn to its ranks the best and the brightest, attracted by a career that brings together scientific knowledge, rigorously developed skills, and good judgment to help those in need. Whether it’s breaking an asthma attack, delivering beautiful babies (even eight at a time), transplanting a heart, or comforting a dying patient, serving the sick—each of them a unique person—fills the minds of prospective doctors more than the daily onslaught of stories describing a medical system in crisis. (US News and World Report)