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But even now, 2011, there's still certain cells that we just can't grow from the
patient.
This is actually a
patient
who [was] presented with a deceased organ, and we then created one of these smart biomaterials, and then we then used that smart biomaterial to replace and repair that
patient'
s structure.
And you see that
patient
now six months after with an X-ray showing you the regenerated tissue, which is fully regenerated when you analyze it under the microscope.
Or if we're going to use larger structures to replace larger structures, we can then use the
patient'
s own cells, or some cell population, and the biomaterials, the scaffolds, together.
A few weeks later, you have your engineered organ that we're able to implant back into the
patient.
So we actually perfuse first the blood vessel tree with the
patient'
s own blood vessel cells, and we then infiltrate the parenchyma with the liver cells.
This particular printer we're designing now is actually one where we print right on the
patient.
Because in reality, what you want to do is you actually want to have the
patient
on the bed with the wound, and you have a scanner, basically like a flatbed scanner.
You see a scanner technology that first scans the wound on the
patient
and then it comes back with the printheads actually printing the layers that you require on the patients themselves.
So once those cells are on the
patient
they will stick where they need to be.
So we go layer by layer through the organ, analyzing each layer as we go through the organ, and we then are able to send that information, as you see here, through the computer and actually design the organ for the
patient.
It needs a profound attentiveness and a
patient
waiting, a contemplative attitude and a generosity and openness to those whose experience is different from my own.
But 20 years on, my patient, Surinder, is Asia's longest surviving cadaveric liver transplant to date.
He said, "For whatever reason, the surgeon simply felt that he was on the correct side of the patient."
And my parents were very patient, but I had been doing intermittent sojourns to India on a mystical quest.
But about 10 percent of the time, after the
patient
has recovered from one of those events, pain persists.
That was the experience of my patient, Chandler, whom you see in the photograph.
As a radiologist, you can basically fly through your
patient'
s colon, and augmenting that with artificial intelligence, potentially identify a lesion that we might have missed, but using AI on top of radiology, we can find lesions that were missed before.
Only in about 20 percent of visits do you need to lay hands on the
patient.
Now, we've talked about augmenting the
patient.
So the surgeon can see inside the patient, through their lens, where the tumor is, where the blood vessels are.
Here's a paraplegic patient, walking by strapping on these exoskeletons.
We're entering the era of personalized oncology, the ability to leverage all of this data together, analyze the tumor and come up with a real, specific cocktail for the individual
patient.
If we take our own bone marrow cells and treat a
patient
with a heart attack, we can see much improved heart function and better survival using our own bone marrow derived cells after a heart attack.
Hopefully you can appreciate the device going through the
patient'
s body removing bone marrow, not with 200 punctures, but with a single puncture, under local anesthesia.
We can now reprogram your skin cells to actually act like a pluripotent embryonic stem cell and utilize those, potentially, to treat multiple organs in the same patient, making personalized stem cell lines.
And by pulling these things together, if we start to think about how to understand and leverage them, we're going to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.
One of the senior doctors at my hospital, Charlie Safran, and his colleague, Warner Slack, have been saying for decades that the most underutilized resource in all of health care is the
patient.
Now, I was an engaged
patient
long before I ever heard of the term.
Well, my doctor prescribed a
patient
community, ACOR.org, a network of cancer patients, of all amazing things.
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