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To: Locomotive Breath

I had a professor for Thermodynamics as an undergrad in night school. He was semi-retired, but working as a consultant on an artificial hear in the mid-80s. Fascinating when he digressed into the practical engineering problems of developing a reliable heart that would act as a bridge until a donor heart would become available. I always tried to imagine a cardiac surgeon attempting to converse with a mechanical engineer... 2 different languages.


8 posted on 07/14/2022 2:16:20 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

In case it’s not self evident, I’m an engineer. Once I worked on a company developing an intravascular implantable defibrillator. There was a well-known M.D. involved in the company. He’d come to our technical meetings and just sat there looking confused. In my head, I referred to him as the “installation technician” because he was working with things he didn’t understand.


9 posted on 07/15/2022 3:27:15 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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