S5E3 - Why Nobody Fixed This $12 Billion Surgical Problem, Until Now | Liz McGloughlin
Published: March 25, 2026
Duration: 59:59
What does it take to redesign a surgical instrument that nobody has touched in sixty years?
In this episode of Why Design?, Liz McGloughlin shares the belief that sits at the heart of her work: that hardware problems worth solving are the ones nobody has bothered to solve yet, and that the best place to find them is not a trend report but an operating room.
Rather than following a conventional route into medical devices through engineering alone, Liz brought a clinical lens to a design problem, co-founding Tympany Medical after watching surgeons work around...