Hello, I hope this will be a nice productivity+growth+daily life updates blog - i have always loved tumblr and so i am back. this has always been a place where everyone is just on that side of sanity and i am here for it coz thats my constant state

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Because - look, the steel ring ceremony started for civil engineers as the result of a catastrophic bridge failure. It started as a way to say "this was a situation where we fucked up and there was a huge disaster, and we want to recognize that and treat our job seriously." It's since expanded beyond that, to other countries and other branches of engineering, but that is still at the core of it. If you screw up, people can die.

I'm a biomedical engineer. I got into this field because I originally wanted to work in prosthetics. I currently work in orthopedics (think joint replacement and trauma bone repair). I chose my major and my field because I want to help people, and I take that responsibility seriously. And this is why it drives me up the damn wall when my peers complain about the FDA or about the processes we have to follow, or when other people complain about how complicated designing medical devices is, because those regulations are written in blood.

My job can kill people just as easily as a failed bridge. Maybe not in such a flashy manner, but it can be just as deadly. If we release an instrument that can't be cleaned, it can kill people. If we make a device, implantable or otherwise, out of a material that isn't biologically safe, it can kill people. If we make the instruments cleanable or able to be disassembled, but design a case that doesn't allow them to be cleaned, it can kill people.

If we market metal-on-metal hip implants? It. can. kill. people. And even if it doesn't kill people, it can permanently affect them and reduce their quality of life.

I take that incredibly seriously. I personally think the Last Week Tonight episode on medical devices and the Netflix special The Bleeding Edge should be mandatory viewing for everyone in my field, because this is what happens when you take the easy road and prioritize profits over patient safety.