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Sales Tactics on Implants Raise Doubts

Date: May 31, 2011
Author: Barry Meier
QUOTE: an implant industry where producers seek to influence the brand of device that patients receive long before a diagnosis....big makers of implants like heart devices and artificial joints, including Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific and St. Jude Medical, have settled Justice Department charges that they illegally promoted sales. The enforcement effort has sought to reduce the role of corporate influence over medicine through tactics like bogus or inflated consulting deals with doctors.

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I was sorry to read this news. The number women who are living better lives because of breast implants is huge. I hope that those in need of them aren't discouraged by a few bad apples.

-- MorningSun on July 25, 2011 02:41 PM (view details)

 
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