Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Hip Replacement Case Shows Why Doctors Often Remain Silent - NYTimes.com

The Hip Replacement Case Shows Why Doctors Often Remain Silent - NYTimes.com: by Barry Meier

THE note sent by a doctor to several executives at Johnson & Johnson was blunt: an artificial hip sold by the company was so poorly designed that the company should slow its marketing until it understood why patients were getting hurt.
Andrew Testa for The New York Times
A faulty hip replacement a doctor removed from a patient.
The doctor, who also worked as a consultant to Johnson & Johnson, wrote the note nearly two years before the company recalled the device in 2010. And it was far from the only early warning those executives got from doctors who were paid consultants. Still, the company’s DePuy orthopedic unit plowed ahead, and those consultants never sounded a public alarm to other doctors, who kept implanting the device.


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