I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
John Cameron
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I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67. -
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed. -
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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- I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
- Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
- When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.
- The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.
- Medical physics is an applied area of physics.