“Medical physics is an applied area of physics.”
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Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.
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.
There are now over 5, 000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.
