The Physician Inventor

The Physician Inventor is a practical roadmap for doctors, nurses, engineers, startups and others looking to protect their medical devices and methods. The purpose of this book is to equip you to make decisions. Caselaw and footnotes are intentionally kept to a minimum, focusing instead on functional knowledge, sensible advice, and useful anecdotes and examples. The nuances of medical devices are explored based on patent attorney Peter D. Sleman's years of experience with device manufacturers. This book will teach you how to: * Understand the various forms of intellectual property * Conduct a patent search to ensure that your invention is viable * Save thousands of dollars by hiring the right patent attorney * Utilize advanced prosecution techniques to minimize waste * Build an international strategy * Approach business partners with confidence and prudence

The Physician Inventor is a practical roadmap for physician inventors, startups and others looking to protect their medical devices and methods. The purpose of this book is to equip you to make decisions. Caselaw and footnotes are intentionally kept to a minimum, focusing instead on functional knowledge, sensible advice, and useful anecdotes and examples. The nuances of medical devices are explored based on patent attorney Peter D. Sleman's years of experience with device manufacturers. This book will teach you how to:* Understand the various forms of intellectual property* Conduct a patent search to ensure that your invention is viable* Save thousands of dollars by hiring the right patent attorney* Utilize advanced prosecution techniques to minimize waste* Build an international strategy* Approach business partners with confidence knowing that you are being prudent

In Life-Changing Medical Invention, Dr. John Allen Pacey offers insight into the high-impact world of operating room innovation. Physicians today have the opportunity to revolutionize the healthcare industry by inventing new medical platforms to improve patient care and reduce costs. As a Vascular and General Surgeon himself, Dr. Pacey brings 15 years of innovative experience, having guided the invention of 33 GlideScope variants and 6 aperture video retractor variants for surgeons as well as the invention of supportive tools. You'll learn about... - Passion and life-changing "Eureka" moments experienced by great inventors. - Creating an idea is followed by a ten-plus-year period of "execution" during which one must entrain money, great people, and build a new world for all. - The profound importance of "Mentoring" and "Know thy Customer." - Planning unique invention to avoid "me too" ideas that fail to add value. - Learning how to create a " Blue Ocean Opportunity" and sell to real customers for real money so that you can exploit your passion further. - The benefit of sweat equity, frugality, and bootstrapping to pull through the "valley of death" and benefit of persistence to "never surrender." If you are a physician with a patentable idea or a student hoping to become an inventor, this book will provide examples of those who persisted and won.

The first automobile in the history of the United States appeared on Racine, WI, streets back in 1873. It was a steam propelled horseless carriage conceived, designed and built by Rev. John Wesley Carhart, pastor of the Methodist-Episcopal Church there. A few years later, while serving as Presiding Elder of the Appleton, WI, District of the Methodist Church, an "Open Letter" written by fellow Methodist Minister George C. Haddock, and published in the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, would change the course of John Wesley Carhart's life forever. John Wesley Carhart also was a prolific writer. One of his books, "Norma Trist," was one of the first novels to deal with homosexuality. He self-published the book and was arrested for sending pornography through the mail when he began filling mail orders for the book. Another of his books, "Under Palmetto and Pine," was a sensitive treatment of the problems facing African Americans living in the South, especially in Texas, during the late 1880's.

Edgar Holden, M.D., of Newark: Provincial Physician on a National Stage is a study of medicine and health in Essex County, New Jersey, and its largest city, Newark, in the decades following the Civil War. Th e book is structured around the multifaceted career of Edgar Holden, a Newark physician who transcended the provinciality that characterized Essex County?s medical community and institutions. Th e author demonstrates how institution building and new paradigms of medical authority funneled from burgeoning urban medical centers into the provincial and sluggish medical landscape of northern New Jersey. Th e lack of a medical school within the state stymied the intellectual and professional ferment that the best nineteenth-century American medical schools attracted and fostered. New York City, with its medical institutions and elite practitioners cast a giant shadow over northern New Jersey, which consequently has been somewhat neglected by historians of medicine. An exploration of this lively community of welltrained practitioners, fl edgling institutions, and ailing citizens sheds light on similar medical communities that found themselves importing?but rarely exporting?medical knowledge and expertise.