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Ian Donald
(27 Dec 1910 - 19 Jun 1987)
English physician who first successfully applied ultrasound reflection imaging for medical
diagnosis.
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“As soon as we got rid of the
backroom attitude and brought our
apparatus fully into the Department with an inexhaustible supply of
living patients with fascinating clinical problems, we were able to get
ahead really fast. Any new technique becomes more attractive if its
clinical usefulness can be demonstrated without harm, indignity or
discomfort to the patient... Anyone who is satisfied with his
diagnostic ability and with his
surgical results is unlikely to contribute much to the launching of a
new medical science. He should first be consumed with a divine
discontent with things as they are. It greatly helps, of course, to
have the right idea at the right time, and quite good ideas may come,
Archimedes fashion, in one's bath..”
— Ian Donald

