{"id":45742,"date":"2014-10-20T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=45742"},"modified":"2014-10-20T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T21:33:00","slug":"forssman-crazy-pioneer-used-guinee-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2014\/10\/20\/forssman-crazy-pioneer-used-guinee-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"Forssman, the Heart Pioneer who Used Himself as a Guinea Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading the illustrated walls of the hospital waiting room a couple of weeks ago, we learned this compelling little fact about\u00a0Werner Forssmann<\/a>, one of the pioneers of heart catheterization. He had the idea that you could thread\u00a0a healing device through an artery and into the heart.<\/p>\n

Then he tried it on himself.<\/p>\n

At Improvised Life, we are big believers in the “try things out” school of discovery and creating.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"cardiac<\/p>\n

Having been continually disappointed by “experts” (check out our Annals of Bad Design<\/a>),\u00a0we’ve\u00a0discovered that by doing serious\u00a0research, learning all we can, and making calculated decisions, the best, most powerful action we can take is trying things out in our life, on ourselves, to learn, and find what works for us, NOT necessarly everyone else.<\/p>\n

In the process we also find out what DOESN’T work (and therein lies the need to be prudent, if there’s any danger to life and limb).<\/p>\n

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Werner Forssmann’s risky\u00a0experiment pioneered techniques that would save our dear friend’s life almost six decades later. \u00a0He reminds that nothing new can happen without taking a risk.<\/p>\n

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Sweaty Wisdom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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