Bridging Design Gaps – Marching Forward Down the Innovation Path

In our past several articles, we’ve talked about the inherent similarities and differences between problem-solving for engineers and for physicians.  In a nutshell, we found that much of their essential technique is pretty much the same—with a  few key differences: If we leave out the technical specifics, what we’re left with is People.  Patients with … Continue reading Bridging Design Gaps – Marching Forward Down the Innovation Path

Bridging Design Gaps – Summarizing Our Loop Comparison

Ah, the Circle of Progress has made yet another revolution!  We’ve gone through one full iteration of our Generic Problem-Solving Loop.  We’ve looked at things from our Engineer’s perspective as well as from our Physician’s perspective.  What did we find? In case you haven’t been following all of the recent articles in this series, please … Continue reading Bridging Design Gaps – Summarizing Our Loop Comparison

Bridging Design Gaps – Comparing Engineering and Physician Approaches to Problem-Solving: REVIEW

You’ve done it!  You’ve gone through your process!  You’ve identified your problem, you’ve thought up a batch of possible solutions, you’ve chosen one of them and you’ve tested it out.  You have a tidy little pile of data sitting in front of you.  Now it’s time to make the magic happen: REVIEW When we look … Continue reading Bridging Design Gaps – Comparing Engineering and Physician Approaches to Problem-Solving: REVIEW

Bridging Design Gaps – Comparing Engineering and Physician Approaches to Problem-Solving: TEST

So here we are!  Step 4 at last—TEST!  Things may go a little haywire from here, but we’ll find a way to bring everything back in line by the end… In our recent article series, The Lonely Surgeon has been examining the age-old question of why engineers and physicians sometimes fail to produce useful medical … Continue reading Bridging Design Gaps – Comparing Engineering and Physician Approaches to Problem-Solving: TEST

Bridging Design Gaps – Comparing Engineering and Physician Approaches to Problem-Solving: THINK & CHOOSE

Welcome back!  Today, we are going to continue our ongoing discussion here at The Lonely Surgeon that has been going on for a few installments now.  It’s a big topic, so it takes awhile!  To recap, we have been examining how engineers and physicians approach problem-solving to see why disconnects happen so often in the … Continue reading Bridging Design Gaps – Comparing Engineering and Physician Approaches to Problem-Solving: THINK & CHOOSE