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Network Theory and Vascular Laboratories. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 56
The medical community is a network of physicians,
nurses, technologists, patients, insurance
companies, and administrators who interact with each
other to provide patient care. Within this vast
network is the vascular laboratory. Using actor
network theory described by Stanley Milgram, Bruno
Latour, and Albert-László Barabási I am able to
identify different factors called actors that play a
pivotal role in the survival of a vascular laboratory
(or any other diagnostic lab) in today's medical
community. In the historical perspective of the
vascular lab network, technology has blurred
the separation of gender roles between the typical
physician (masculine) and nurse (feminine).
Furthermore, other, less recognized interactions,
such as trust and confidence between physician and
technologist play a part in the patient
care network on a micro and macro level.
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