Dr. David Fischer
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Podcast Appearances
You know, and you'd pick a team.
One of those guys that show up for the first time you ever saw him with his shirt off, you'd say, I don't know him, but I'll take him.
Oh, close to, probably, rounded off to about 50, I suppose.
You know, I have to, boy, when I think about something like this, I have to think about both inventions,
and probably the law, in that the computer changed all of our lives, but it really changed medicine, in that things like the CAT scan and the MRI, they were known for years.
I mean, the MRI was used in the 1940s in industry to evaluate blocks of plastic for
uh impurities in blocks of plastic the x-ray which is the foundation of the cat scan you know that was discovered in 1896 yeah long time ago yeah and with the computer it became possible to take the x-ray to take the mri and apply it to to
We knew how to do these things, but we couldn't handle the amount of data that was created.
And so the computer changed that.
The MRI and the CAT scan totally changed the face of medicine, both of them.
In the case of the MRI, we could finally see under the skin.
We could finally see the soft tissues
which we really didn't have any way of seeing them or seeing an injury to them.
And then the arthroscope came along, of course, in orthopedics and changed the face of medicine as well as orthopedics.
So during my career, those inventions all happened and changed the face of medicine.
When I look at the law, I look at
I don't want to get into too much of a discussion here.