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Now here’s the best of what YOU had to say:
- Medtronic’s Bill Hawkins: We’re hungry for acquisitions. “Today we have the capabilities, technology and knowledge to treat heart failure, diabetes, degenerative disc disease. The real shift is thinking about ourselves in a bigger way, much more than just a device company.”
- CareFusion fails to show Medtronic sought monopoly in spinal procedures. “Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for Northern California ruled that CareFusion failed to prove that Medtronic sought to illegally dominate the markets vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, but gave the San Diego-based company a month to file an amended complaint.”
- Healthcare reform debat has marginalized doctors. “Unless we address these powerful, subliminal psychologies head-on, our influence on the larger social policies influencing healthcare delivery in the future will remain limited.”
- Old? Female? Headed to ED? Take someone with you. “There’s just too much going on for an ailing patient to process alone, and it’s important to have someone there to be a second set of ears and eyes, provide moral support, ask questions, and — when needed — perform a quality control role.”
