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Michael Patkin's |
List of Publications:
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Surgical instruments and equipment |
Reflections & comments in 2005 |
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Surgery Ergonomics Information design Organising & storing information Miscellany |
Articles written by colleagues [in MIMS]
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The MIMS publication, the size of a large city phone directory, was the young sibling of the MIMS reference on drugs which nearly every doctor still knows about. "My" MIMS went to hospitals at no cost 10 or 20 copies to the largest (OR supervisors, purchasing departments), and just one to the smallest. I heard it was to be published by accident in 1975, contacted the publisher, and told him this commercial catalogue must have introductory articles on selection and care of surgical instruments. Over the next twenty-five years I enviegled a succession of colleagues to write up to 20 editorials every 2 years. What kind of readership they had is a mystery, but they were used as teaching material for the CSSD course at the RAH. Commercially MIMS was losing money towards the end, and folded in 2002, The publisher, Chris Wills, continues with other successful publications and has generously given permission for copyright to be waived for publication of this material We therefore gratefully acknowledge the role of his companies over the years. The best source of such information today is Health Devices, published annually by ECRI. This non-profit organisation employs hundreds of biomedical engineers and other experts, and is recognised by WHO and numerous organisations around the world as the leader in this field. |
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