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"Radio News" magazine, April 1924.

"Radio News" magazine, April 1924.

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The first use of tests of communications technologies applied to medicine is almost as old as the invention of the telephone. Within a very short time, the telephone was shown as an essential element to ask or exchange information of medical content between health professionals. The spectacular development of broadcasting in the first quarter of th...

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