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Why are ultrasound machines so expensive?
This showed up on my FB feed the other day; it raises a very good point.
Maori.Geek [maori.geek.nz] writes a very good post on something I never considered before. Why are these essentially simple machines so very expensive?
Name a technology that is more useful, more educational, more interesting, and more overpriced than a ultrasound machine. You can look inside of living things without the need for a powerful magnets or radioactivity and it is basically made from a speaker and microphone outputting to a screen.
After seeing one in person regularly over the last 9 months it struck a nerve; how useful would having an ultrasound machine available at every doctors surgery? Or in every bio-lab at high school.
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