| While the image of the hometown doctor with his | | | | appearance of a machine shop as a medical facility. |
| stethoscope and thermometer is an ingrained part of | | | | With the help of these technological wonders, just |
| our idea of the medical profession, the modern doctor | | | | about every part of your body can be probed and |
| is in fact surrounded by a plethora of complex | | | | tested to determine what is wrong and offer the |
| machines that help with the work of keeping us | | | | chance to find ways to correct it. Different machines |
| healthy. Of course the microscope is a traditional piece | | | | can analyze not only blood and other bodily excretions |
| of office equipment and allows visual access to the | | | | but can look at the very genetic makeup of our selves. |
| world of microorganisms, even these have grown | | | | Medical machines are not limited to the office, hospital |
| powerful enough to almost make out the atomic | | | | or laboratory. Many medical machines are inserted |
| structure of the tiny sources of illness. | | | | directly into the body to keep it functioning. Artificial |
| Diagnostic machines help give the doctor a good look | | | | heart machines will allow life to continue and insulin |
| at the various parts of the body to investigate what | | | | pumps provide the necessary balance for diabetics to |
| may be a problem. The ultrasound machine can give a | | | | keep them from coma and death. Other prosthetic |
| three dimensional representation of the organs without | | | | devices act as the arms and legs of a person who |
| having to cut the body open and see. MRI scanners | | | | has lost an organic limb. |
| will even show the intricacies of the brain and its | | | | Current research is swiftly developing microscopic |
| functions. Different diagnostic machines will view the | | | | medical machines. Nano technology is striving to create |
| heart and lungs and, of course, the X-ray will find most | | | | machines that are sometimes only a few molecules |
| foreign objects while checking the bones for breaks. | | | | big that can be injected directly into the body and |
| There are many medical monitors available to keep a | | | | repair it from the inside. Already there are a few of |
| constant eye on a patient and record every action the | | | | these micromachines that have been effective against |
| body takes. ECG and EEG machines will monitor heart | | | | tumors. The next step is to create these tiny tools to |
| rate, respiration and even the brain wave activity of | | | | be able to replace bulkier artificial organs in favor of |
| our minds at work. Other monitors will analyze the | | | | having them monitor and regulate organ activity |
| very components of the blood to find any dangers | | | | without having to resort to often impossible or |
| there. | | | | extremely invasive surgical procedures. |
| There are medical machines that provide therapeutic | | | | With the aid of their vast army of medical machines, |
| value to the doctor's cause as well. Among these are | | | | the medical profession hopes to some day be able to |
| infusion pumps and ventilators. Laser surgery machines | | | | conquer every problem that besets the human body. |
| can offer more precise tools that steel blades for | | | | Whether they are huge iron lungs or dialysis machines |
| delicate operations. Some, like the LASIK surgical | | | | or microscopic nanobots, these technological marvels |
| machine can even shave the cornea of the eye to | | | | are the defining tools of the modern medical |
| improve vision. | | | | profession. |
| A medical laboratory is as likely to give the | | | | |