August 4th, I-day…
July 18th, 2004 at 5:46 pm
My implant date has been scheduled for August fourth. That’s when I’ll be getting a new Medtronic Maximo VR defibrillator. Hot stuff. You want to know the coolest thing?
They’re gonna’ let me keep the old one!
So here I present to you the top ten list of things to do with a $20,000 piece of used biomedical technology:
10: Prop up a shaky table.
9. Doorstop
8. Paperweight
7. John’s Hopkins bling-bling.
6. Fake Pager
5. Science Project
4. Chinese throwing defibrillator
3. Sell it to a competing company for a huge profit.
2. Two words: indoor hockey.
And the number one thing to do with a used defibrillator:
1. Rig it to a toilet seat and videotape the results.
I defy you think of a better list in under ten minutes…

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