Month: February 2010

It

In the January issue of 24×7, the article, “The Art of the Deal,” covered negotiating tips to help secure the best prices on device purchases, as well as ideas on how to know what to include in a contract. For example, Arthur Bartosc

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Open Letter to Employers of BMETs

Barbara Christe, MS We’re partners, you and I. You did not volunteer. You did not sign up. But, together, we must work tirelessly to produce the best possible BMET graduates. Graduates need far more than the latest computer networking skills or the ability to analyze a transistor circuit. To round out our classroom instruction, our […]

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BC Group

Mel Roche When BC Group, St Louis, President Mel Roche founded the company’s parent Lloyd Industries in 1981, he was its only engineer, manufacturing products himself from the ground up. Almost 30 years and a full team of engineers later, Roche is still hands on, but in an altogether different way. After purchasing BC Group […]

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Emergency Preparation

Arthur R. Bartosch, BS, CBET On a crisp autumn day last October, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY, was bracing for a full-blown pandemic influenza catastrophe. Physicians and nurses scrambled to ready beds, while biomeds rushed to set up enough portable blood pressure machines and ventilators in a makeshift triage area to await a steady […]

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