Home. What does that word mean to you? The dictionary defines it as “the place where a person permanently resides.” But that feels a bit cold, doesn’t it? A bit inhuman?

I think most things are better when done personally. Isn’t that why we’re all in medicine anyway—to care for people directly, one human being to another? For a small example, I’ve never used AI assistance on these flow probe blogs. You, as a clinical reader, are worth every bit of my time and effort.

But there’s also a little more than that. You see, flow probes are a family business, all the way back to the early 1980’s, when Cor Drost emigrated here from Holland and built a home. He came on a research grant, to figure out how to measure flow in blood vessels, like CABG grafts. So in a way, his home came into existence because he was solving a problem. I.e., he was looking for the answer to an important question, and ended up building a home around it.

So maybe “home” isn’t so much about the place. Maybe home is about what you need to do, and then as a result, where you need to be to do that thing. If your name is Cor Drost, maybe you get a grant that brings you to Ithaca. If that’s not your name, then who knows, maybe caring for troubled foster children is what you need to do, so a good school system and proximity to a clinical job determines where you need to be.

But then… doesn’t that suggest an even more basic definition of home?

Maybe home is just wherever you’re needed.

Like I said, no AI here. AI would have probably made the point more smoothly, more perfectly. But it wouldn’t have been alive, because it’s our imperfections that make us all human. If you’re reading this blog, then we’re glad you’re with us in the medical world, and we wish you the warmest, most alive, most imperfectly human home that you can have.

Thanks for reading,

               Transonic Systems, Inc     

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