Radiology in India.

Abstract

Radiologists in this country are reasonably well informed as to the status of our specialty and the accomplishments of our colleagues in the countries of Western Europe and South America, but our contacts with medicine in the Far East are relatively few. An opportunity to observe the practice of radiology in India was afforded to me through membership in a visiting team of medical scientists sponsored by the Unitarian Service Committee and the World Health Organization, whose aim was to bring to India some of the developments of Western medicine. Since achieving independence, India has come to be regarded as a powerful factor in world politics, perhaps because of the supreme contributions to religion and philosophy which have originated there. But in the realms of science and technology the achievements of this country are little known. In any consideration of radiology in India, some orientation as to its medical practice must be achieved. Like many Eastern countries, the number of physicians in proporti...