New Technology in Colorectal Cancer-a Boon or a Bane

Abstract

Better patient care in today’s world is almost synonymous with newer technology. Newer technology in the form of latest gadgets used for diagnostics, preoperative work up; per-operative care and post operative smooth recovery have become the part and parcel of our standard day to day quality care and any practitioner, nowadays, refusing to incorporate these gadgets in his day to day practice is labeled as orthodox and an outdated clinician. We as service providers need to be technology friendly and at the same time try to use these gadgets for quality care and cure. We have to be the ones guiding the technology rather than being guided by the technology. But probably many a times that may not be true in day to day practice with most of us. With the result we have allowed the technology to be our bad master rather than utilizing its services as a good servant and probably in the name of better care many a times the new technology is used abusively rather than genuinely and the ultimate impact may not only be financial but even the physical; and the sole sufferer is the end user; that is the patient. I will in my article try to weigh the pros and cons of this theme and try to come out with a balanced conclusion for the worthy readers.