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February 9, 2006
Information at the Point of Need
If you walked into the operating room of a plastic surgeon repairing the nose of, say, a trauma victim, you might see this, a Gruber retractor. The weight is sculpted in such a way that it explains its own function, but that is secondary to its real purpose: it is sculpted to proper proportions. That is, the surgeon can grab the weight and hold it next to the patient's face to assess correctness of the repair comparitively before putting the skin back over the cartilage. It might seem gory, but it is a superb example of information at the point of need.
Posted by Niels Olson at February 9, 2006 10:09 PM
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