A resident physician spends his time at a laboratory to help him with medical practice and research. It does not deal with chemicals or petri dishes.
That laboratory, tucked away at the Steele Memorial Library in Elmira, has a special kind of technology that Ryan McAtee, the resident-physician, uses– 3D printers.
“Printing it here, I believe was about 80 cents a piece,” McAtee, a resident-physician at Arnot Ogden Medical Center, said.
He talked about a plastic model of a human larynx, real-size, that he used for medical training. He printed five of the models on the lab’s 3D printers as he said each one cost 80 cents, but compared to how much?
“I would estimate that they would be no less than $50 a piece from an authorized medical store,” McAtee said. :It’s interesting. There are models available you can buy. They’re prohibitively expensive…
