The Eyes Have It

The importance of images to the communication process is one of the recurring themes of this blog. The single image responsible for communicating to me the greatest number of important messages, with the greatest clarity and power, was the ultrasound image of my first child. What had been an abstraction suddenly seemed very, very real. That message was conveyed by an old-fashioned, black and white, two dimensional, “is that an arm or a leg” type ultrasound. I can only imagine how powerful the impact of first seeing my child in one of these 4D ultrasounds would have been. I wonder how useful they are as a diagnostic tool.