A link to a stroy about innovation

 

I read a really great article today. 

 

"Recalling the Apgar Score's Namesake"

 

It's on WSJ.com. 

 

You could also send your search engine looking for results for "Virginia Apgar" and gather up a few more pieces on her life, her medical career, and a stamp.

 

I found the article great for many reasons. It framed the sexism that existed once in the medical community here in the United States. It reflected how the medical community, at one time, had a few priorities out of line. Most of all it showed how innovation, the kind that can save lives, can happen in the smallest time frame. 

 

People tend to think the greatest ideas came from scientists or other researchers putting in long frustrating hours in dark cramped development centers. Or maybe they come from a garage or built in the basement by some tinkerer who has devoted years to building a better toilet paper dispenser. Some world changing ideas do come from these places. Others, just sort of show up in a second of opportunity. Those are the stories I appreciate.