Television has played an extremely important role in the field of medicine
in its sixty years of broadcasting, precisely because of the direct contact with
viewers. As far as its first years of working are concerned, it had not only transmitted interesting facts through words and picture, but also to a great extent
a certain degree of knowledge in the field of medicine among people. It is said
that it has also played an interactive role, because especially in counselling programmes viewers could participate by asking questions and take an initiative to
propose a certain topic. It has been noticed that in the first decades there were
many more programmes regarding this topic, more guests, experts, discoveries
and development were of a greater importance. Nowadays, of course, a lot of
various, more modern ways of informing are available, predominantly internet
and different social networks. This can also be a double-edged sword, because
people who look for information by themselves, can explain different diseases
and problems in their own ways. This is especially seen among the youth who
are not attracted to television in a classic sense, but perhaps only to its portals.
All material on medicine that is kept in our archives should be quickly and easily
accessible to users, mainly to our authors and journalists, so that they can illustrate and improve their programmes, and of course also to external researchers. Not only that we can study medicine, its development, progress, health care
institutions here and around the world in such a way - The TV archives are also
the reflection of more than a half-century old actions in this field. An insight into
local and foreign programmes regarding medicine shows more than an interesting spectrum of various scientific, technical and also ethical efforts that were of
a great meaning to human.