
Even Einstein had to do the research
Four months into our immersion in the Biodesign fellowship here at Stanford University (with a team of two physicians and two engineers designing medical devices), I can finally say what I think is working for us: understanding the science.
After spending a month in the hospital looking for problems and a month in the office looking at the patients affected by the problem and data about the problem, we brainstormed ideas on how to fix it. The result: if we didn’t go into the room with great information on the problem, we didn’t come out of the room with great ideas on how to solve it.
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