When two or more people from the world of medical technology meet, talk inevitably turns to the ongoing, yet elusive, search for an industry-standard, multidisciplinary diagnostic device – the fabled tricorder.
Fans of Star Trek will recall the small, rectangular gadget with a top-mounted, rotating hood and shoulder strap, routinely carried by Dr ‘Bones’ McCoy whenever he was beamed down to a new planet.
Simply by waving it in the general direction of stricken Starship Enterprise crew members, Bones was somehow able to diagnose anything from acute Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome to an ingrown toenail. Of course, this was unnecessary for any crew member wearing a red shirt as they would be killed by aliens.
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