Worth Repeating

"This approach is not for everybody and there are no miracles. Minimally invasive orthopedic surgery does patients a favor, not a disservice. Even so, you cannot sacrifice patient safety to save a few millimeters of scarring."

-Dr. Kristaps Keggi, professor, Yale University, and a longtime proponent of MIS total hip surgery

“We made a determination to avoid conflicts of interest and even the appearance of conflicts of interest.”

-Jody Hatcher, senior vice president of marketing, Novation

“The way we do business doesn’t lock out anyone.”

-
Bert Patterson, vice president, Premier Inc.

“Everyone should feel that their business activities are being scrutinized.” 

-Robert P. “Bud” Bowen, president, AmeriNet



“The medical device industry is one of the largest and most stable industries in healthcare.”

-Charles Whelan, analyst, Frost & Sullivan



“When it comes to bioterrorism and its insidious infectious diseases, we’ve let slip something that was once pretty good. Now we need to be good again.”

-Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases


“I’m wondering if there’s a sleeping snake there waiting to wake up and bite.”

-Lawrence Muscarella, Ph.D., Custom Ultrasonics Inc., on use of solutions other than glutaraldehyde for sterilizing instruments.

HPN

April