Radiology — A Case Study in Technology and Manpower

Abstract

IN the Transactions of the Würzburg Physical Medical Society on December 28, 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen described "A New Kind of Rays." The magnitude of his discovery and the rapidity with which fellow scientists and the public at large grasped the implications represent a true scientific revolution1 that, in its wake, required a number of social, economic, educational, legal and institutional changes and adjustments. Public expectations of the cure, containment or amelioration and diagnosis of disease have been fulfilled. These expectations have been matched by increasingly serious social issues, such as high cost, maldistribution and suboptimal organization and utilization of . . .