Specialty practice Scientists

Both the players and the game have changed. Many sophisticated applications are being developed by those less sophisticated in the area of computers. One does not need to be a electrical engineer to watch television, so why should one need to be a computer specialist to use a computer. This is a boon to the scientist who is an expert in his own field of endeavor and now finds the computer available to him to practice his specialty without the need to be a computer expert. We can now focus on the application, not on the tool. 

Science is primarily a scholarly endeavor the practice of medicine is primarily a practical trade. Scientists try to find out more and more about the world, even if doing so is time-consuming. Medicine, in contrast, depends more on what is usefiil than on what is true. That includes the specialties of neurology and psychiatry. The important information for medicine is that which enables medical practicioners to decide how best to try to help individual sick people. Generally those decisions must be made within a limited amount of time in order to be useful. Even the decision to do nothing is a decision that affects patient welfare. When possible, medical decisions are based on scientific information, but where the science is lacking the decisions still have to be made. 

At the end of this diapter, we would like to appeal to more scientists and technicians of different specialties to take part in the research work of shock-wave chemistiy in close collaboration in order to raise tlie research in this field to a higher level and to speed up the practical utilization of the achievements in these fields. 

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