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were going to create a medical device that would soothe andentertain children during the often-traumatizing process ofanesthetizing them, it would have to seem fun for kids and helpfulto doctors. "For physicians, it had to read as a fine-tunedanesthetic monitoring device," says the 48-year-old Cohasset,Massachusetts, anesthesiologist and inventor. "For kids, itneeded to read as fun."