The Economist article is paywalled for me, but BBC news has a piece at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40498395 that describes the shampoo bottle hack.
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How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
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#12Honestly the amount of screen space the economist takes away is ridicolous.
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#13Move fast and break stuff or overenginer medical devices and pay the $
But don't be two faced and complain that a software bug in a medical device should never have happened and cheer hacks like these.
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#14Honestly the amount of screen space the economist takes away is ridicolous. https://imgur.com/a/U0ClW65 (Yes I have an adblocker installed)
Not to mention these "please subscribe" and "you have no free articles left" popovers and alerts. Whats even worse is that Google News now includes paywalled publications with these spammy dark patterns. I don't mind paying for Quanta or Nautilus and other high quality publications. But sorry [Generic Copypasta News.] Most of the time all you do is copy the PR off Associated Press - I am not going to pay for freely available current events or your shitty OP-eds.
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#15>>The hospital now deploys it routinely and the number of children who die there from pneumonia has fallen by three-quarters. That means the survival rate in the Dhaka Hospital is today almost on a par with that of children treated in rich-world facilities, using conventional ventilators. Innovation like this is facilitated by the lack of medical device regulations in Bangladesh.
I don’t think you deserve to be downvoted for this. A $5 hack is not really possible in the west, and that is definitely a thing worth thinking about.
You might not get stopped from doing it if it was immediately obvious that it was effective but eventually hundreds of thousands if not millions would be spent on studies or approvals before a “proper” device made its way into the supply chain at 10000x markup over injection moulding cost.
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#16Honestly the amount of screen space the economist takes away is ridicolous. https://imgur.com/a/U0ClW65 (Yes I have an adblocker installed)
I find it slightly ironic that when I view that imgur image to see how much screen the economist takes away, ~30% of the window is obscured by a cookie warning and the content is dimmed.
Not a critique of the thecatspaw.
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#17>>The hospital now deploys it routinely and the number of children who die there from pneumonia has fallen by three-quarters. That means the survival rate in the Dhaka Hospital is today almost on a par with that of children treated in rich-world facilities, using conventional ventilators. Innovation like this is facilitated by the lack of medical device regulations in Bangladesh.
More like it was facilitated by the need. Had they had as low fatality rate as developed countries, I doubt weak regulation would have spurred innovation. Which is supported by the fact that fatality rates now almost match developed countries. If it was the weak regulation that spurred innovation, the rate should continue to fall.
Relatively weaker regulation (coupled with need!) allowed a doctor to deploy an unapproved pediatric device. You might get away with this once or twice but if you were a company making this thing in the west you would get rightfully sued into a smoking crater.
I think the fallacy in your reasoning is to assume that innovation is “proportional” to death rate somehow. Doing it cheaper (or even at all!) under the constraints you have is still innovation. Put another way I think we have different definitions of innovation. The way I think of it, equivalent outcome for way less cost still counts.
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#18Honestly the amount of screen space the economist takes away is ridicolous. https://imgur.com/a/U0ClW65 (Yes I have an adblocker installed)
I find it slightly ironic that when I view that imgur image to see how much screen the economist takes away, ~30% of the window is obscured by a cookie warning and the content is dimmed. Not a critique of the thecatspaw.
Interesting, I dont see those, even in private browsing with my adblocker disabled
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#19> Ever heard of the concept of "jugaad"? It's a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation. Let's use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attention to jugaad immediately.
Eh, I tend to translate jugaad to hack.
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#20What a nice story about keeping things simple. Also, damn, neonatology must be brutal to work in at times.
I could never work in a vet office, obstetrics, neonates, or early paediatrics. I don't know how people do it.