Recent Technological Advances in Your CareerAdvances in the Treatment of Clinically Inoperable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Emphasis on Prospective Studies Surgical technologists are allied health professionals, who are an integral part of the team of physicians who provide surgical interventions assist patients in a variety of methods. The surgical technologist works under the medical supervision of a surgeon to maintain the safe and effective conduct of surgical procedures in the operating room, ensuring that equipment is functioning properly and that the operative procedure is conducted under conditions that maximize patient safety. The story of how surgical technologists began on the battlefields during World War II, when the army used doctors to work under the direct supervision of the surgeon, nurses at the time were not allowed on board combat ships, this led to a new profession within the military called Operating Room Technicians (ORTs). . An accelerated nursing program based only on operating room technology was established as on-the-job training for nursing assistants working in the surgery department,...