Raquel Welch is 73!

My co-workers are typically very supportive of these newsletters. At most they just chide me to update my reference points and to bring my “tie ins” up to the current millennium. Ignoring their advice, who remembers the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage featuring Raquel Welch? (You can see what I remember about it!)

 

A miniature submarine and medical team were inserted into a comatose scientist in order to remove an otherwise inoperable blood clot. This was a quantum leap in technology that also showcased Raquel’s well developed talent.

 

Fast forward to 2013 and the Harvard Gazette, along with a press release from Massachusetts General Hospital, and we learn about a new miniature imaging system that may replace traditional endoscopy. This is a pill-sized, infrared laser capsule, that when swallowed, will create detailed, 3D, microscopic pictures of the esophageal lining.

 

Potential advantages over endoscopy include:

 

• Sedation not required.

• Specialized setting or equipment not needed.

• Physicians can be easily trained.

• 6 minute vs 90 minute procedure.

• Improved imaging.

• Eventual use as a mass screening tool.

 

When medical technology is allowed to blossom, it really is a Fantastic Voyage.

 

The Wellman Center for Photomedicine is doing better.

 

Call Us. We can do better.

 

William Faris, JD
Chief Executive Officer
502-495-5040
william.faris@omca.biz
www.omca.biz

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