Patient-centered device design is not bedside manner
This year I interned at Dr. Ziauddin Hospital during my biomedical engineering studies. Much of what I learned there was not to be found in books. At the moment it was standing next to a machine, doing its job perfectly, and the patient attached to it, looking totally lost.
Medical devices are manufactured to perform accurately. They have to be quick, believable to the physician that reads the number, fail-safe, and …
Patient-centered device design is not bedside manner
