“In 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen stumbled upon an image that had been created when X-rays passed through his wife’s hand and then exposed a photographic plate. The image revealed the bones and soft tissue of her hand in exquisite detail. No one had even dreamed this was possible.
Rontgen’s discovery was extremely significant, in part because it helped drive an unprecedented social transformation of medicine in which physicians rose from humble wage-earners in a cottage industry to prestigious professionals who sat atop gigantic health systems.”
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers, 18 November 2009
