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SPECIAL PLACE

# Shop Talk

By John Soeder

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Sparks fly as Surgical Instrument Technician Scott Ineman operates a grinder in the Lerner Research Institute’s Mechanical Core. Cleveland Clinic’s main campus is home to one of the few on-site machine shops in a U.S. hospital. In this hive of high-precision activity, members of the Medical Device Solutions team fabricate, customize and repair a wide variety of innovative devices for clinical and research applications.

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Take a tour of the Medical Device Solutions team’s capabilities.

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