Michael Lee Email & Phone Number

I have recently retired after fifty years as a clinical, front line ER physician here in Canada and in Saudi Arabia. In 1973 when I first started in the ER, there was no specialty called "Emergency Medicine" though my few colleagues in Calgary and a like-minded, small group in Seattle knew there had to be. Those early years were fun, frantic years as we studied, cobbled together knowledge (mostly from military sources) and slowly invented this new specialty. During my years in Saudi Arabia I had the highest security clearance available in the country as through a series of events, I became the personal ER physician to HRH King Fahd bin Abdulaziz for five years. This clearance allowed me to be alone, one on one with the King. In the last years of my clinical practice I started to think about the things in a busy ER that slowed down our work and occasional negatively affected patient care. I identified several issues, chose one and invented a solution which I have patented. Anyone interested in a brief look at it can go here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpZhTJvzK4At the end of the COVID pandemic, my wife and I got a puppy who remains the apple of our eyes. However, with my large hands and a small ring on Kiki's harness if found it almost as impossible to attach and detach the leash as I did the tie down straps on the EMS backboards. Thus was born another very practical use for my invention. Since then the list of potential uses has gotten quite long.