i think once in a while about how "medical" is a category for display technology, like medical-grade LCDs or CRTs, and how I don't really know why that is. Was thinking about it just now in the context of X-rays
My understanding is that reading X-rays is an incredibly precise skill requiring tons of experience and radiologists will basically point at an invisible variation in a print and say "oh they have a lung disease" with 80% confidence
If you viewed that image on an LCD that wasn't completely, 100% calibrated and linear, those variations could be completely lost. The variance in how consumer LCDs display images is extremely wide, even between identical models.
It makes me wonder if there's still a lot of dependence on film for X-rays because it doesn't have this potential problem at all
