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The first time I stepped into an operating room in the developing world, I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. It was a children’s hospital in Managua, Nicaragua. I was travelling with a team of surgeons, nurses, intensivists, pump specialists, anesthesiologists and one engineer – me. It was the middle of a procedure to fix a heart defect in a beautiful little girl – a little girl with huge brown eyes and an innocent smile, despite a life filled with poverty and severe disability. She could hardly walk without shortness of breath due to her heart condition.
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Malkin, R. (2013). What Medical Equipment Taught Me About Sustainability. In: Madhavan, G., Oakley, B., Green, D., Koon, D., Low, P. (eds) Practicing Sustainability. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4349-0_1
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