Medical Technology

Painless needles are one way technology is improving society. Needles are always scaring young children and even adults. Now with the new painless needle pediatricians can give vaccinations pain free. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology call theses new needles micro needles. They are made from silicon, metal, glass or biodegradable polymer. Theses needles are 500 times smaller then ordinary hypodermic needles, which are too small to irritate nerve endings. These new needles will consist of 400 embedded micro needles will be glued to a patch that will gently puncture the skin. Now with this new technology society can have pain free shots.

I think this new technology is amazing especially for little kids who are scared of needles. If they need shots they won’t be scared of them anymore.

Technology has also helped medicine with the use of robots. At the Bay front Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, Jeff Lannigan oversees 1,300 prescriptions a day. That is a huge amount of prescriptions. Now he has a new kind of help. Spencer is a one million dollar robot that dispenses prescriptions at speedy rates. It takes Spencer three and a half hours to do what it took pharmacists 24 hours to do. This new technology also eliminates the room for human error. This means that people will have the right medication every time. If you are a customer waiting for a prescription than this technology will defiantly better society. Some people say that this new technology will hurt society because it will eliminate jobs for pharmacists. This is not true. The article says, “Instead of spending the whole day dispensing medicines, pharmacists have time to do what they’re trained to do—take care of patients.” “You are able to look at patients’ medication and make decisions on how to change things,” says Dilkhush. This is another example of how technology has helped medicine have a positive impact on society.

I think this is way better because we don’t have to wait as long to get our prescription. I think everyone needs this because it is so slow.

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