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    Defective digestive detective

    Jun 03, 2020 3 minutes

    RECIPE FOR INVENTION: take one European, beetle-whispering master engineer with a passion for patents (that’s Adam Osseiran), add one maverick, Kalgoorlie-born, Nobel prize-winning gastroenterologist and self-confessed gadget freak (Barry Marshall) and stand well back.

    “Over the years I’ve become a bit sceptical of things that were traditional in medicine, particularly aspects of the physical examination,” says Marshall.

    “As a gastroenterologist I used to carry a stethoscope but used it about once every six months. It looked good in photographs – that was important. Everyone has

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