St. Jude seeks retraction of Hauser's manuscript

http://investors.sjm.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=73836&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1680886&highlight=

 

Very quick to jump to your product / company's defense.... even to throw a renowned doc under the bus and call his studies bias and unreliable. I bet there are a lot of patients out there that would benefit STJ jumping to their defense this aggressively. Like recommend flouro, give a crap that their defibrillator may not deliver that once in a life time shock they so desperately need. .. or biv therapy. Class act as usual. THE SAME BULL OVER AND OVER AND OVER....."LOOK THE OTHER WAY, NOTHING TO SEE HERE. SOMEONE IS TELLING YOU LIES ABOUT USE BECAUSE WE ARE SUPERIOR AND THEY WANT TO RUIN OUR REPUTATION." For gosh sakes, put your big girl panties on and suck it up. Take it like a professional and stop crying foul every time YOU get called to the carpet. Cry babies.

 

Wow. the funny/sad thing is if you ignore the spin and actually go look at the MAUDE system you find most St. Jude Riata reports are literally one line compared to Medtronic or others at a paragraph.

also interesting that they try to not claim they are better than they are, but to smear mud on others.

Sad attempt to take the industry down with suggestions they are somehow better or more transparent when they are in fact the worst.

I feel bad for Mark Carlson - I really think he was an honorable doc before he joined STJ. He's put in a terrible situation. Makes you wonder if he'll find a way to walk away.

 

Word on the street is that NYT is ready to print an article about the Riata issues very soon........?

 

notice the link is from investors/stjude. This is so pathetic! Who does this? You guys are truly a piece of work.

 

STJ is losing the Battle and the War..Have you ever seen a retraction change public opinion? STJ is chasing its' tail and it's fun to watch. Attempting to minimize the facts presented by a renowned physician who is neutral to any company and a pt advocate on device reliability, is probably not a smart idea.

STJ is such a toddler in this arena that you can't help but scratch your head and say,"Really guys?? This is what you spend your time on...at the end of the day you know you're killing pt's but it's the #'s and frequency that trouble you..not the fact that you're killing pt's?" Wow...the future looks pretty bleak for you jack offs!!

 

And here is the Barry Meier piece in the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/health/flaws-in-st-jude-heart-defibrillator-shake-the-industry.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1333763156-pQS7uPB+KJueLPEWEWhtsg#

 

Carlson knew what he was signing up for. Now he just needs to Man Up for us and swallow his big boy pills to help us out

 

Carlson has been a disgrace from Day 1 on this issue. He needs to take a serious look at his career choice, he's a Dr for Christ sake not a PR guy.

 

STJ claims Durata is immune to these problems. The miracle of Optim. All companies use highly accelerated life testing (HALT) to simulate long term implant performance. Where are the data? What are the predictions for Durata out beyond current implant experience? You can't keep saying they are fine based only on the relatively young implant population. The idea that a thin dip/spray coating will keep these overripe bananna like leads from splitting is far fetched. if the cables are moving around that much inside..

Besides the impacted patients who continue to recieve devices from this flawed pedigree, an overreaction/corrrection is going to occur in the market with regulatory going nutz to prevent this from happening again. Unfortunately the regulatory require companies to operate with ethics and dilligence and with STJ showing neither of these heads will roll and all other companies will pay the price with redoubled compliance and survielance obligations.

 

Are you referring to the post market clinicals we all perform on leads thanks to Fidelis? Or are yoy eeferring to how Medtronic stalled physician communication while tey got their Quattro plant retooled after they had stopped making those leads?These leads were designed an rolled out 10 years ago. Back in the heyday so to say. I also do not think STJ has said Durata is immune. They say this problem hasn't been seen one time in a 20000+ postmarked study of the last 5 years it has been released. Will the market change? Yes, unfortunately it will.

 

What's the name of this STJ 20,000 pt post market study? Results? When did MDT stop making Quatro and retool? STJ did in fact claim externalization was not an issue with Durata nor have they addressed that it is shorting out cans and failing to deliver life saving therapy which is much worse than revealing conductor wires. Are you a clown?

 

First, your name calling shows your intelligence. Second, if you paid attention I never said 20000 anything, it's 20000+ leads in over 13000 patients. It is called the Optimum registry they are required to follow because the Fidelis recall changed the industry. Medtronic lied to and blamed the doctors for a couple years in order to buy time to retool the plant to make Quattro again because the Fidelis was everyone's savior. STJ has not seen externalisation in Durata so how can they not claim it hasn't been an issue. Recalls are not good for anyone.... Patients, doctors, reps....... No One!

Happy Zombie Jesus day!

 

you're a complete blind idiot! Don't even know where to start becuase you won't get it...so I won't! This time next week give the STJ stock price and let me know how many of your doc's listened to your crap...here's a challenge for you...what are you telling your doc's about the LV lead and Riata and how to follow these pt's? What are your words of wisdom you are imparting on them?

 

Not only are u an ignorant and blind follower of Starks but u made and even bigger mistake with the "zombie Jesus" statement. Please keep idiotic statements like that to yourself. Especially on a day like today.

 

They are truly the bottom of the barrel in Cardiac Rhythm Mngmt. Thank you Dr. Hauser for putting a voice out there in which the medical community will listen. Their ethics and remorse are buried under their stockholders fat asses. Pray for forgiveness you wretched, egotistical, money hungry sloths.

 

Not a follower of Starks. Just a realist. Like you are an opportunist. You have been beaten down since 2005 and finally have a finger you can point.

 

Nothing funnier than a born again CRM rep. Pretending you are doing the Lord's work. Do you tithe your 700K salary asswipe? Your holier than though attitude is as hypocritical as your CS you bang while your ugly wife pretends to play tennis. The dic's can see right through your "caring for the patient's" and don't kid yourself that they can't.

 

can the dic's I mean doc's really see that well? I don't think so. If they could, they would see your externalized conductors and you would be out of business frog face.

 

Medtronic's bacon was saved by the docs who never liked the thinner leads, forcing them to keep Quattro production going for a small percent of market and allowing them ramp up vs have to re-start a production. Perhaps that's why STJ has put their head so deep in the sand on Durata - not only do they not have a prior fallback lead still in production but if they did, it's already on a Class 1 recall.