Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin
Catherine Mohr: Comment je me suis transformée en oursin
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Galapagos Islands,
septentrionales des Galapagos,
and a big school of sharks.
et avec un banc de requins.
of friends for about a week,
depuis une semaine,
des requins baleines,
hammerhead sharks.
des requins-marteaux.
particulièrement complexe.
son appareil photo
throwing you into the rocks
sur les rochers
la photo parfaite.
for that beautiful photograph.
vraiment pas.
noires d'oursin
all the way through your hand,
have a venom on them that,
les oursins sécrètent un venin,
gives you horrible, painful inflammation.
causent des inflammations douloureuses.
prioritaire à ce moment précis.
in my mind at this point.
que c'était ma main.
into, like, little scientists,
à me dissocier, comme les scientifiques,
mon cerveau était plein d'adrénaline,
adrenaline brain kicked in,
get my glove off with these in here."
pas enlever mes gants avec ces épines.
coming up in front of my face.
devant mon visage.
and starts freaking out.
à la surface à ce moment, et j'ai paniqué.
traverser la plaie si vite ? »
have gotten into that wound already?"
and very calmly explains,
a pris le relais et expliqué calmement :
down really hard over my hand,
très fort sur ma main,
dissipate a bit before we have to surface
avant de remonter à la surface
They don't feed when they're schooling.
en groupe. Pas en groupe. Pas en groupe. »
the same books that I have.
bouquins que moi.
with sea urchin spines,
par des épines d'oursin,
from any medical help,
à espérer avant deux jours,
is, unfortunately, cook your hand.
de cuire sa main.
as hot as you can stand,
aussi chaude que possible
absolutely insane.
aux portes de la démence.
for several weeks after that,
plusieurs semaines.
fine motor skills returned.
toute sa motricité.
stiff and painful for weeks
raide et douloureux
a tip of the urchin spine
un bout d'épine de l'oursin
que ça ne guérissait pas.
"You know, we should get this out.
for a few weeks out on a Monday.
chirurgicale quelques semaines plus tard.
in a horseback riding accident.
lors d'une chute de cheval.
facing six weeks on the couch,
étions donc coincés six semaines au lit
if it hadn't been for my friends.
si je n'avais pas eu des amis formidables.
at my house every night for weeks.
spontanément organisées à la maison.
hard to sustain over the long term,
est difficile à entretenir à long terme.
to just one friend,
in the evenings --
compagnie les soirées.
during this period of convalescence.
connaitre pendant ma convalescence.
en état de santé suffisant
pronounced well enough
and drove up into the mountains
et on est parti en montagne
dans un glissement de terrain.
Just the opposite, in fact.
to that marvelous introvert
would have approached me
de m'approcher,
merveilleuse de 14 ans,
than needing a walker
qu'un déambulateur
a funny little epilogue.
avec une fin cocasse.
I could reschedule that surgery,
je pouvais reprogrammer la chirurgie
from all the bones in your body --
disponible dans tous les os du corps,
that you happen to have lodged
qui est restée par hasard
en parti constitué d'oursin.
et de physicienne,
et de mammifère au sang chaud,
warm-blooded-mammal brain,
that that confers.
qui viennent avec.
est une des choses
is one of the things
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Catherine Mohr - RoboticistCatherine Mohr loves what she does -- she's just not ever sure what it will be next.
Why you should listen
An engineer turned surgeon turned strategist, Catherine Mohr is always on the lookout for new technologies to help improve patient outcomes while trying to stay in her sweet spot -- the steep part of the learning curve.
As VP of Strategy for Intuitive Surgical in Silicon Valley, faculty at Singularity University and advisor to med-tech startups in the UK, the US and her native New Zealand, Mohr follows her self-admittedly geeky passions wherever they lead her, as she designs, makes, writes, tinkers, plays and travels all over the world.
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