Medical DIY from Dr Carla Pugh
Somehow I like these kinds of articles, as much as I like home-made versions showing true creativity.
(worth reading the rest of this NYT article)
The human breast comes in wondrous varieties. Good luck learning that in medical school. There, students practicing on training dummies mostly encounter the same set of perky 36Bs. Many students become doctors never having learned the nuances of checking for cancerous lumps in larger, smaller, flatter, fuller or droopier breasts. So Dr. Carla Pugh, a surgeon at the Northwestern University medical school, takes matters into her own hands. She builds fake breasts in her lab from everyday off-the-shelf items. Lima beans, it turns out, are excellent facsimiles for tumor tissue.
Dr. Carla Pugh, right, discusses one of her model body parts with Dr. Katherine Blossfield.
Hope to see such DIY makers at Maker Faires, too.