tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post4444214284107365965..comments2024-03-17T05:36:26.059-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: The Stealth Marketing of Medical Devices: The Biotronik ExampleRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-51082184314997367812012-05-21T17:07:52.451-04:002012-05-21T17:07:52.451-04:00What do you say to a patient who needs that device...What do you say to a patient who needs that device to live a better life?<br /><br />How then is this any change from the circus ring involved in patients receiving devices that really are on the technological forefront of the market?<br /><br />Perhaps companies with embedded relationships discourage the new technologies on the block because they cannot profit from what they have not developed.Chesley Gassetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10340415478898278313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-16733040081299100402011-06-04T15:19:42.853-04:002011-06-04T15:19:42.853-04:00This is not about pens, pencils, paperweights, and...This is not about pens, pencils, paperweights, and clocks. Do ya think that these doctors are getting more from the company than from their care (or lack thereof) of patients with Medicare insurance?<br /><br />Oh yes, one more thing, did anyone check the indications and appropriateness of implanting the devices?<br /><br />Gee, EHRs and CPOEs should surely be able to reduce these excessive Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-63895726905937097872011-06-04T08:58:43.708-04:002011-06-04T08:58:43.708-04:00Sign # 5: ConflictsSign # 5: ConflictsSeven Signs of Ethical Collapsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=jk84TarG4LQCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-40637506659698383742011-06-03T20:29:22.037-04:002011-06-03T20:29:22.037-04:00"The article documented attempts to get comme..."The article documented attempts to get comments from the physicians" Just a request for you to carefully consider the source, and then make the call.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-62577709062650479932011-06-03T14:52:47.804-04:002011-06-03T14:52:47.804-04:00I increasingly see why there may have been such se...I increasingly see why there may have been such seemingly paradoxical resistance to my creation of a true, unbiased device-evaluation information system in invasive cardiology <a href="http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/?loc=cases&sloc=Cardiology%20story" rel="nofollow">in a large hospital a decade ago</a>.<br /><br />-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-63896434629122140952011-06-03T13:17:21.459-04:002011-06-03T13:17:21.459-04:00Anonymous of 3 June, 11:54 AM-
Do you perhaps hav...Anonymous of 3 June, 11:54 AM-<br /><br />Do you perhaps have any evidence that the reporter is "anti-business and anti-physician," or that the New York Times "has proven its intent to distance itself from true journalistic rigor?" Otherwise, I presume you are just trying an ad hominem.<br /><br />The article documented attempts to get comments from the physicians. They Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-80899431179597922062011-06-03T11:54:19.433-04:002011-06-03T11:54:19.433-04:00FYI, your believability score is diminished when y...FYI, your believability score is diminished when you base your arguments on the severely biased "opinion" of a known anti-business and anti-physician reporter with a paper that has proven its intent to distance itself from true journalistic rigor.<br /><br />What has happened to the idea of hearing both sides of the story? For example, has anyone asked any of the physicians named to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com