The Importance of Technology Transfer | Better World
Patient: "It hurts when I do this." Doctor: "Then don't do that." How that dovetails with cutting technology speaks to the nature of innovation. Greg Gordon, MD, an interventional radiologist, suffered every time he did his job. Discomfort, chronic pain, debilitating back injuries and even dangerous radiation exposure are all part of an interventional radiologist's existence. Gordon couldn't just stop. But the pain could. Interventional radiology uses x-rays to help guide equipment like catheters and stents, or monitor blood flow and find blocked arteries. Fluoroscopic procedures are flooded ...