Big Sky, Mont.—While some aspects of medicine have become modernized, other segments are reminiscent of a bygone era. As computer programs, seemingly out of the Jetsons, browse through records and data to analyze diagnostics, there’s also surgical equipment like the Weitlaner retractor still in use, with little change in its design since its creation in the early 1900s.
It is not necessarily a bad thing to use tried-and-true equipment, said Paul Szotek, MD,