While waiting for a Lufthasa international flight, Paul A. Wetter, MD, founder and chair of the Society for Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS), noticed that popular magazines and newspapers were available on an app that the airline offered free of charge to its first-class passengers. The app was ingenious: Not only could passengers download the publications, but they were theirs to keep and could be read even when internet service wasn’t available.
Dr. Wetter had a