Re: Favourite Test Equipment

On 6/04/2024 3:33 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 07:49:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

On a sunny day (Thu, 4 Apr 2024 11:56:23 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Phil Hobb <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote in <uum4h6$kmdl$1@dont-email.me>:

Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund <klauskvik@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 01-04-2024 09:01, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:41:18 +0100) it happened Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote in <9k7j0jlnbhs8qfg5m17pium0835meean83@4ax.com>:

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It's also true that you can often make do with what you have. The most
important test instrument is the one between your ears.
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In the before times, doctors were much better with stethoscopes than they
are now.
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But I'd sure prefer a cardiologist who could use tomography and ultrasound
over the best stethoscope guy.

Tomography isn't much good in cardiology. The heart moves around during a tomographic scan, and it doesn't do it predictably enough for a stroboscopic scan to work. Somebody tried when I was working at EMI Central Research in the late 1970s, and it didn't work well at all.
Superfast machines may do better but ultrasound is a lot cheaper.

Only useful if you can read the screens, these days they train AI to find cancer in the scans.....
Yes I worked in an Uni hospital too.
How many people die each year because of medical errors?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
Remember Jim Thompson stating 'they are giving me ... but I had a warning I was not supposed to get that'
Few days later he was dead.

 Jim had pancreatic cancer, which is notoriously tricky to diagnose due
to the misleading symptoms it gives rise to.

It's also hard to see - the pancreas is a small organ - and it is impossible to do anything about it. One of our affiliated ultrasound clinicians when I was at at EMI, could find it quickly and cheaply with ultrasound, but early detection didn't save any lives.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney