Whitfield A H N, Whitfield H N
The Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2006 Jan;88(1):62-5. doi: 10.1308/003588406X83168.
Over the last two decades, there have been major advances in methods of medical imaging that have brought great benefits to patients both for diagnosis and for treatment. There has been an increasing tendency for some of these new imaging modalities to be dependent on highly sophisticated technology. The belief has developed amongst doctors who use these techniques that newer is necessarily better. Just as patients (and some doctors) now often believe that anything done with a laser represents the best that can be offered, so there is a tendency to demand that newer techniques in imaging should always be offered as the preferred option. In urological practice that philosophy is questionable.
在过去二十年中，医学成像方法取得了重大进展，这给患者的诊断和治疗都带来了巨大益处。这些新的成像方式中，有些越来越依赖于高度复杂的技术。使用这些技术的医生中形成了一种观念，即越新就一定越好。就像患者（以及一些医生）现在常常认为任何用激光进行的操作都是所能提供的最佳方式一样，人们也倾向于要求成像领域的新技术应始终作为首选方案被提供。在泌尿外科实践中，这种理念是值得质疑的。
