Graham Ride wrote:
>
> "The programmer the doctor uses to treat the
> patient from the outside does have date-sensitive
> chips in it, but at this point we've upgraded or
> replaced all of the programmers we have out in the
> United States," Reid said.
Good news....
>
> The
> issue for us is equipment of ours that's in use
> overseas, because that's gone out through a
> series of distributors and we're working to make
> sure they can bring those machines into
> compliance."
>
Bad news.
> Reid seems to be speaking for the industry as a whole. I wonder what Medtronic's
> lawyers think?
Whether Reid could be given a non-speaking role in future. This is too
honest a response.
He reveals knowledge of risk (with monitors) but effectively declares
that they do not know full extent of risk at present outside of the US.
I would say his "we're working to make sure..." does not give sufficient
comfort as yet to doctors to do nothing. It is the doctors who have the
ability to force the runnng in getting to the position of 100%
assurance.
Graham Ross
Solicitor
Ross & Co
Liverpool, UK
+44 (0)151 284 8585
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