Fingers, forearms, and the far future. Archimedes August 2026

Visualising inside things has been an obsession of us in medicine since the ideas of healing first began - be that the mental models we created with palpation and auscultation - or the revelations of roentgenography - to the latest cetacean approach of high-tech echolocation. Could we switch from feeling for broken arms bones, through X-raying them, to using ultrasound to see if things had straightened up?  (https://adc.bmj.com/content/111/8/741.1)

Visualising the future is another obsession the world’s had forever too, it feels. When we’re EBMing though, perhaps we don’t do so much of it and should (https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/1/79.2)

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