Medical MacGyvers: Nurses Craft DIY Devices to Fit Patients' Needs From: KQED Science - 05/26/2016 By: Lesley McClurg Inside sterile hospital environments, medical MacGyvers are designing and building new medical devices with an assortment of raw materials to improve patient care. Recently oncology nurse, Victor Ty, designed a Lego MRI machine for a pediatric specialist who hoped the device would inspire kids to skip sedation if they understood the procedure. Over the past year, Ty says, 50 kids who have seen the replica have decided against anesthesia. Read the entire article at: http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/05/26/medical-macgyvers-nurses-craft-diy-devices-to-fill-gaps Links: Maker Health http://www.makerhealth.co A History of Nurse Making and Stealth Innovation http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2778663 Submitted by Paul Berry