Your average guy from Argentina, not involved in the medical field at all, invented an inflatable device to help with difficult childbirths so doctors don't need to result to giant forceps or suction cups, which can harm the baby. He was inspired from a YouTube video on how to get out a cork that has fallen into a wine bottle.
A doctor, who thought the idea was fantastic, said “But first, this problem needed someone like Jorge,” he said. “An obstetrician would have tried to improve the forceps or the vacuum extractor, but obstructed labor needed a mechanic. And 10 years ago, this would not have been possible. Without YouTube, he never would have seen the
video.”
www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-tool-to-ease-difficult-births-a-plastic-bag.html
A doctor, who thought the idea was fantastic, said “But first, this problem needed someone like Jorge,” he said. “An obstetrician would have tried to improve the forceps or the vacuum extractor, but obstructed labor needed a mechanic. And 10 years ago, this would not have been possible. Without YouTube, he never would have seen the
video.”
www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-tool-to-ease-difficult-births-a-plastic-bag.html
Photo credit: Diego Giudice for the New York Times