{"id":14620,"date":"2019-05-13T06:50:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2019-05-11T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T18:26:24","slug":"medical-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/medical-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"medical photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14621\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/medical-photography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14621\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14621\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/medical-photography-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left c1985 post op x-ray of a partial nephrectomy. Right c2019 pre op x-ray of hip joint surgery<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. With media speed improvements, photography became a tool as well as an art. Many industries employed the technology to provide diagnosis, records, and text books.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, one of the earliest examples was a daguerreotype taken in an <a href=\"http:\/\/anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org\/article.aspx?articleid=1933426\">operating theatre in Boston<\/a> in the 1840s showing ether being applied to a pre-surgery patient. For us simple folk, x-rays &#8211; usually dental &#8211; are the most common. \u00a0In fact Kodak made film of many sizes just for x-ray use. Modern day practice significantly reduces the amount of x-ray energy required to make a usable image. My dentist uses digital technology making sharp computer images almost instantly with a far lower dosage of radiation.<\/p>\n<p>As cameras evolved, many doctors chose to use photography in their every-day practice of medicine whether eyes, feet, hands, skin, or any other specialty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. With media speed improvements, photography became a tool as well as an art. Many industries employed the technology to provide diagnosis, records, and text books. Nevertheless, one of the earliest examples was a daguerreotype taken in an operating theatre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/medical-photography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[21,2587,2012],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-kodak","tag-medicine","tag-x-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14624,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions\/14624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}