Two things.

[camwyn]

Number one: I realise this is a concept sketch and probably not the most accurate depiction of the actual device, but I have to say that if I were shown the picture at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1891000/1891949.stm and told by my doctor that they wanted to use that thing on me, I would probably opt for l-dopa treatment instead, lonnnnng past the point where it ceased to work.

Number two: It looks like cadhla is still feeling unwell today. Why not stop by Temple Ov Thee Lemur's Instant Monkeys Online page and send her an instant monkey? They're really cute.

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I hate to be a pedant...

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

...well, ok, so I don't really hate it...

You're right, it's a conceptual sketch. After the healing of surgical incisions, probably the only visible component would be a lump, slightly smaller than one of those silly little "wearable" cell phones (i.e. around 4x6 cm/1.5x2.5 inches) under the skin of the chest wall. Which would probably be further disgused by being placed in or near the subclavicular fossa, that divot below the collarbone about 2/3 of the way out to the shoulder. Just like a pacemaker.

Sorry, I used to do this sort of stuff for a living, and as a vocation.

Hey, 4 years of medical school have to be good for something, right?

Re: I hate to be a pedant...

[camwyn]

It's not the appearance that gets me. It's the part where I'm fully aware of the fact that I've got big pokey things sticking into my brain. Kind of like the way I'm more than happy to give blood every 56 days just so long as they don't make me think about the sight of the needle poking out of my arm for seven minutes straight. Little cover of gauze so it just looks like a very big lump with a hose attached? Fine, kewl, whatever. Actual thinking about the needle being half in, half out? Ghaaaah. Same deal, only with electrodes and my head.