In the medical world, the advent of the first high-tech imaging technology – the CT, or computerized tomography scan, in the 1970s – was “like going from the Dark Ages into light,” a local specialist said. But even for those who see the technology’s benefits, the proliferation of expensive high-tech scanning equipment in the United States, and the growing frequency of its use, is disconcerting.
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