medical breakthroughs

A small wand instantly detects straggling cancer cells during surgery. A person with a chronic disease, living far from a hospital, sends his avatar to the doctor’s office. The general public becomes trained in providing first aid for those with mental health problems.  Pioneering Milwaukeeans are working on making these – and other – breakthroughs a reality. For their enterprising work, they are prepared to be hated (for creating a co-sleeping device for babies), ignored (for improving the city’s public health) or loved (for keeping older heart patients alive with a new treatment).   What will be their legacy? Only…