Gondi Suhas, Patel Kavita
IEEE Pulse. 2016 Nov-Dec;7(6):8-12. doi: 10.1109/MPUL.2016.2608447.
The United States is hailed as providing the most advanced health care the world has to offer. With cutting-edge medical devices, groundbreaking procedures, and innovative technologies, our hospitals and medical centers define what the global community sees as modern biomedicine. Engineers and clinicians continue to push and reshape this standard with new inventions enabled by a rapidly developing knowledge base. However, the fruit of this advancement has not benefited Americans equally. Millions still face significant obstacles to access health care, and our rural communities in particular have been left behind (see also "The Challenge of Rural Health Care").
美国被誉为提供着世界上最先进的医疗保健服务。凭借前沿的医疗设备、开创性的手术以及创新技术，我们的医院和医疗中心定义了全球社会眼中的现代生物医学。工程师和临床医生借助快速发展的知识库催生的新发明，不断推动并重塑这一标准。然而，这一进步的成果并未平等地惠及美国人。仍有数百万人在获得医疗保健方面面临重大障碍，尤其是我们的农村社区被甩在了后面（另见“农村医疗保健的挑战”）。
