Doctors and DIY – Answers

In context:

When newborn Millie Kelly went into kidney failure after emergency surgery to correct an abnormality, she was too tiny to be able to use a conventional dialysis machine – so Dr Malcolm Coulthard – a paediatrician – and a nursing colleague (Jean Crosier) constructed a scaled-down version for her from scratch in his garage.
Two years later, her mother Rebecca described Millie as "as fit as a fiddle".
The newspaper headlines made it sound as if the NHS was in some sort of financial crisis, with people devising Heath Robinson contraptions made out of shoeboxes, paper clips and sticky-back plastic. It also inferred that such an invention was an unusual one, which it isn’t.
In fact over 50,000 healthcare scientists are employed by the NHS, the third largest science workforce in the world. Audiologists, medical physicists and specialists in over 50 disciplines test, measure, check and invent. Surgeons are known as great innovators, who develop new gizmos and widgets and adapt bits of surgical kit to make operations easier and safer for patients.

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