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The art of finding what's wrong by refusing to cut you open.
means The branch of medicine that uses imaging — X-rays, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and similar tools — to look inside the body to diagnose and sometimes treat disease.
from Built from Latin 'radius' (ray, beam) plus Greek '-logia' (study of). The word rides on the coattails of X-rays, discovered in 1895, when 'radiation' and its related terms exploded into scientific vocabulary — 'radiology' followed soon after as the name for the new practice of reading the body by its shadows.
- origin
- Born 1895 when Röntgen photographed his wife's skeleton
- wife reaction
- She said 'I have seen my death'
- daily grind
- Radiologists read one image every 3-4 seconds
- irony
- Early radiologists lost fingers studying the rays that save you