David Putrino: Medical Records
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
While working at a hospital, David Putrino finds a surprise in his own medical records. David is a Physical Therapist with a PhD in Neuroscience. He has worked as a clinician in the US, UK and Australia, studied computational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and designed prostheses for Brain Machine Interface devices at New York University. He is an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Weill-Cornell Medical College, and the Director of Telemedicine and Virtual Rehabilitation at Burke Medical Research Institute. He works to develop low-cost patient monitoring and treatment systems, designed to decrease healthcare costs whilst improving the standard of patient care. David is a co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of GesTherapy, a telerehabilitation software company that works to improve the standard of care patients who require rehabilitation. He is also a volunteer for Not Impossible Labs, a company that develops technological solutions for large-scale humanitarian problems globally.
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| 0:37.7 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:40.8 | And I, looking back on this, right? |
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| 0:48.8 | Because science was on my side. |
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| 1:03.8 | Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:06.2 | This week's stories from David Petrino. |
| 1:08.1 | It was recorded in March 2015 at Littlefield in Brooklyn as part of |
| 1:12.2 | Brain Awareness Week. |
| 1:22.3 | So, yeah, I guess I'll start out by saying that I was a really, really clumsy child when I was growing up. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm the kind of kid that, like, everybody who is having kids or thinking about having kids wishes that this is not their kid, you know, like I would, you know, if you put me in a ball pit, I'd get stitches. |
| 1:42.1 | You'd put me in a bouncy castle, I'd get stitches, get me in in a bouncy castle, I get stitches, get me in a knife fight. |
| 1:46.2 | Well, I didn't say it was boring, I just said, you know, stitches. And I had like a really long |
| 1:51.8 | history at the hospital. I grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and then there's one children's |
| 1:57.0 | hospital there, and I was pretty well known. I was so well known that this one time |
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