An article on Medical News Now by Dr. David M. Siegel is based on an interview with Dr. William T. Wilson, Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Harvard Medical School, and the author of The Orthographic Projection Industry: A History of Modern Orthopaedic Surgery, 1887-1994.

This article originally appeared on MedicalNewsToday.com.

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