Play Celebrity Jeopardy! to learn the European Medical Device Regulation

I grouped celebrities who share a common medical treatment and ask you to classify the device using the new European Union Medical Device Regulation rules. I give the answers, you respond in the form of a question.

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My DHF, Version 2.1

I suggest that you stop reading. This is boring. I’m not saying that as a way to interest someone into reading more, I truly believe that this would be boring to most people.

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Bid Daddy and Jimmy Hoffa

1940’s – 1972

What Big Daddy and Uncle Doug had done in Woodville Mississippi was being repeated on a larger scale nationally. Crime and labor unions were unifying in the prosperity and opportunities that followed WWII. Politicians and presidents and gangsters were promising to make every man a king. One of those people was James “Jimmy” Hoffa, president of the national Teamsters union.

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Gumbo in Auntie Lo's fancy gumbo bowls

Wendy’s Family

1955-1972

In the 1950’s, my grandmother was a young woman, living a comfortable life in Richmond Hill Canada, a neighborhood of Toronto. She was petite, barely 5 feet 1 inches tall. Or, as Canadians say, she was a’boot 1.5 meters tall, ‘eh. Her wrists were so thin that her watch would barely fit around the wrist of an average eight year old girl, but her hands were big enough to hold a cocktail glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She enjoyed life.

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How to retire early

This article is how to retire early, based on personal experiences.

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My DHF, Version 2.1

I suggest that you stop reading. This is boring. I’m not saying that as a way to interest someone into reading more, I truly believe that this would be boring to most people.

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How to meditate

This article is how to meditate and reduce suffering from chronic pain.

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Use design controls for innovation

In the movie Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DeCaprio challenged his team to “sell me this pen,” implying that a good salesperson could sell anything.

This article helps teams “design a pen” using design controls in a way that sparks innovation. I wrote it for the biotech or medical device industries but the concepts apply to any company that must share work among a team. We go from defining user needs to transferring design into manufacturing.

Medical Device Design Controls

This article provides an overview of FDA design controls and lists resources to help understand and apply them.
This is in a “dry” format, necessary for repeating definitions. See my blog for versions that use case-studies or are related to pop culture.

5 minute read.

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The European MDR: learn from my mistakes

The European Union Medical Device Regulation protects patient safety and encourages medical device innovation. Companies that embrace the opportunity will succeed; companies that complain will not. Either way, society benefits.

This article is to help you learn the MDR using a product I co-invented and commercialized in 2004, demonstrating how to apply modern MDR regulations. I describe that product in another article. This article helps you learn from my mistakes.