The component words are ´med´ for ¨medicine¨ and ´hack´ for ¨hacker¨. There are many definitions of ‘hack’, and they range from the best to the worst. Jeffrey Veen has an article on it and I agree with him that a hack is “the appropriate application of ingenuity”.
A MedHack then is that same stroke of ingenuity applied to medicine.
Other hacks may be found at MIT where students make it their regular fare.
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