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What 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.
Exchange visits(+) a good use of money perhaps? - spark that innovation.
(+) not necessarily just to 1st world countries by the way
What 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.
There's a happy period where you're doing extremely fulfilling work, then a difficult time when you're distraught at your failures, then a complete indifference to suffering that you've normalized.
Managing fatigue and stress in any job is extremely important, managing compassion fatigue is even more so.
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.
>>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.
Also physicians can file INDs with much less paperwork than a company could. But it’s nonzero, so doesn’t happen all that often.
What a nice story about keeping things simple. Also, damn, neonatology must be brutal to work in at times.
What 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.
> 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.
>>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 inj…