Are 3-D printing and the gamification of medicine good for patients?
3-D printing has been documented as an innovation that’s being rapidly deployed in the medical field. Doctors and researchers have been creating intrinsically realistic models of organs, bones, appendages and sometimes, implanting them into patients. In 2012, University of Michigan doctors implanted a splint to hold open a 3-month-old child’s airway tube. They published their results in the New England Journal of Medicine and opened the gates for others to …
