i forgot i had a blog….maybe I should update this more often.
I saw inglourious basterds earlier this week….it was good…really good. Tarantino despite being labeled as overrated by a lot of people…is still a pretty fantastic artist in the sense of scripting a movie and laying out the scenes. Enjoyable.
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I am going to spain (madrid) for SECEC in 2 weeks. It should be interesting. I usually enjoy going to these types of conferences. I actually think this will be the first trip I do with the “new” company I am forming with 2 coworkers/friends.
Speaking of which, things are starting to come together with all that. It has been a bit stressful these past few weeks/months working out all the logistics of the company but it seems everything will come together sometime in early September. Fingers crossed.
This makes me feel good.
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A lot of Journals are starting to have papers published about the knee I helped design back at Stryker. It’s nice to see that patients are actually getting the results we anticipated.
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San Diego is always nice..
Breakfast is always good in hotels…
How do I know where I am…
This bed looks comfortable….
When is my next meeting?!?! (that’s AM)
Where is my next flight?
I am in Massachusetts for this..a box?!?
Why does traffic suck in Boston?
I am crazy happy to be back in Jersey…
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I am tired…..
So I have been doing some traveling for work this past month. A large amount actually. The travel has been centered around updating our surgeon panel on the current state of our design and future project milestones we plan to hit. All round good stuff.
So…one of the stops we had was in Chicago. There the company was hosting a “Master’s Shoulder Course” or something like that. This meeting basically involved getting all the top users of our company in the US and Europe who use our one Shoulder stem design and have them discuss there results and findings to each other. It was a real “pow wow” so to speak. Anyway since so many important Docs were there, the important corporate head figures made an appearance as well. So during any one of the many cocktail hours that were held you would have a total mix of different corporate images/styles - The surgeon, the CEO, the wanna be CEO, the engineers, and me ( i don’t fit any category) - hanging out mingling together. This of course got me to realize…
…. “how good you look as a total package” really does matter in the corporate world…
I was constantly seeing people who were very important (either surgeon or corporate) be blown off because they just didn’t carry that level of sophistication that so many others brought to the table. It was a very interesting environment to be in. I also noticed that people who dressed more European (with the tighter suits) or with a little more adventurous attitude compared to the standard American Banker business suit had more people approach them than they would approach people. Or to put it simply…if you knew how to dress people would more often than not approach you.
No wonder most CEO’s look like Aebecrombe and Finch models…
..I need to start working out more..hah….
Nate was working in Osirix last week on a humerus model and he found what looked like a gummy bear within the DICOM data. I liked it enough to make him take a picture of it.
-phipps out
This is an interesting article about a new possible way to repair future meniscus repairs.
Typically meniscal repairs that require surgical treatment can be addressed in two ways: remove the torn meniscus (a partial meniscectomy) or repair the torn cartilage with sutures or tacks. A repair with sutures and tacks is generally only successful when the tear is on the outer edge where the blood supply is good. Anything in the center has to be removed completely. That is where this hydrogel technology is very interesting. It appears they plan to inject this material into the body, have it bond to the remaining cartilage, and provide a means to prevent pain from bone on bone rubbing during normal activities.
The gel is not in clinical trials yet, so I don’t expect it to come out anytime soon. But I am sure those tissue engineers are working on it.
-phipps out
this is an interesting article on Tibial Plateau Fractures and how the efficiency of the composite bone grafts are for them.
[Tibial Plateau Fractures via Orthosupersite]
