An Approach to Technology Development and Current Medical Practice

Abstract

Background: An approach to technology development and the current medical practice. Objective: To consider the many stages of medical-applied technological developments and its main consequences related to the current medical practice and speculate on future developments. Methods: Assessment of historical publications and individual and metanalysis of comparative evaluation of old versus new techniques. Results: Documentation of progressive improvement in diagnostic skill and therapeutics toward less invasive procedures along the last decades, since the introduction of the scientific medicine. Conclusion: Progress has been unequivocally documented albeit an effort to maintain time-proven established previous technique is advised, especially in favor of stimulating a personal patient-physician relationship.