While enrolled in the School of Piano Technology for the Blind, Furniss found a mentor in Rick Patten, a piano rebuilder who designs tools specifically for blind technicians.
Furniss belongs to an elite group of blind technicians, and despite the challenges of his profession, he remains optimistic.
The assay card was relabeled, and each card was read again independently by the same three blinded technicians.
All evaluations were made by the same blinded, experienced technician, who also performed the densitometry examinations.
"Is that technician blind?" I thought to myself "Couldn't she have waited for a moment?
Rapid urease tests were assessed by a technician, blind as to the endoscopic features.
The analysis was performed blind by one technician, and various lesion groups were randomly mixed for bisulfite treatment and real-time PCR.
Administration of measures was done by a research technician blind to child diagnosis, and counterbalanced to control for any order effects.
The participants received a clinical examination (not blinded) and an ECD scan of the head and neck (performed by a technician blinded to the subjects' diagnosis) [14].
A laboratory technician blinded to all clinical data of the Laboratory Deparment of the Hospital Universitario de Canarias (La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain) processed all the samples.
A laboratory technician blinded to all clinical data of the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine Universityy of the La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain), processed all the samples.
