Rodney Perkins: The Physician as Device Entrepreneur

While many ideas for new devices originate with physicians, the true doctor/entrepreneur is rare. Rodney Perkins is one of the few who's actually been successful at it.

by Stephen Levin

As a medical student at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Rodney Perkins, MD, designed and developed a device to simultaneously cool and oxygenate blood during cardiovascular surgery that was chosen to be exhibited at the American Medical Association's 1960 annual meeting

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