Boston Children’s Hospital has embarked on one of the nation’s most ambitious programs to integrate 3-D printing technology into medical care with the aim of avoiding surgical complications, reducing the length of operations, and ultimately cutting costs. The hospital has one printer buzzing 24 hours a day and will add two more, at the cost of $400,000 each, later this year. Peter Weinstock, associate professor of anaesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted. Joseph Madsen, associate professor of neurosurgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, and John Meara, associate professor of surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, are mentioned.
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