For all the advancements in the medical industry in the last 30 years, instruments, rooms, facilities while pushing modernity, still come off as gothic, metallic, alien and no gravity free surgery yet on the near horizon. This series explores those spaces and their probes and materials in a myopic style.
On the flip side. The medical device industry is rushing to bring new devices to market with weak FDA approval and testing. Lawsuits abound. In the last ten years more than 70 million devices have been put into bodies. The medical device industry is much bigger than pharma.
The sick individual and their needs however are still simple. We as a society invest billions in the development of new drugs and technologies and yet the typical visit or emergency usually requires only more air, more blood, more beats, more compassion, more fidelity.