Point/Counterpoint. Medical physicists should be allowed by states to image and treat, just like radiologic technologists.

摘要

With imaging and treatment equipment becoming increasingly more technologically complex, it has been suggested that medical physicists are better qualified to operate these machines than radiologic technologists. State regulations, however, prohibit physicists from operating equipment for patient procedures. It has been argued that because of their superior scientific knowledge and technological expertise, medical physicists should be allowed to image and treat just like radiologic technologists. This is the claim debated in this month's Point/Counterpoint.