ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Advocates of 3-D printing are finding new applications every day and claim the technology will revolutionize medicine. But while the technology is increasingly proving its ability to turn out replacement anatomical parts, will it also change the way hospitals buy those parts?
Sometimes it feels as if every time you pick up a newspaper or magazine these days, there’s a feature about the role 3-D printing will have on the medical industry. A year or so ago, The Economist did a long feature on the technology, and last November, Jerome Groopman, MD, wrote a long piece in The New Yorker on the topic.
