Great investigative report from CNBC. Lets review the key points on our conference call this afternoon from 3 to 5.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/10001293?__source=vty|investigationsinc|&par=vty
Dear CNBC,
I have so many emails for you. Please give us a contact to reach you directly at. Or make it more obvious how to reach you on your website.
This is such a joke. Herb Greenberg is nothing more than a troll. Get a clue.
Why would Ryan say they target unskilled surgeons???
Let me get this straight! A company runs an aggressive marketing campaign to target surgeons (this product IS FOR surgeons! AND I believe that the concept of free market and capitalism allow for agressive marketing and companies who market agressively tend to succeed!), the surgeons accepts the training and does what is necessary to gain the skill, the hospitals grant privledges to the surgeons to perform the robotic surgery in their institutions and all of the complications then are the fault of INTUITIVE!? When does the Doctor do a self evaluation in order to say...I need further training, or I do not have skilled hands and I should not do this surgery!? When does the hospital do their evaluations of the "unskilled surgeons" to say: Doctor, you may NOT have the privledge to do this surgery. I dont understand how complications of surgery fall souly on the marketing campaing of the surgeons. How does a Rep, who has not gone to medical school, who has never been trained to perform surgery have the knowledge or ability to evaluate the skill of a surgeon...shouldn't that evaluation be done by other surgeons? Aggressive marketing campaign!? Give me a break! Watch TV...what about the aggressive marketing of a lawyers advertising frivolous lawsuits! I have seen billboards advertising a website: www.whocanisue.com! This is nothing but another ploy to destroy corporate america by atttacking the newest, greatest and most innovative technology the world has ever seen!
Let me get this straight! A company runs an aggressive marketing campaign to target surgeons (this product IS FOR surgeons! AND I believe that the concept of free market and capitalism allow for agressive marketing and companies who market agressively tend to succeed!), the surgeons accepts the training and does what is necessary to gain the skill, the hospitals grant privledges to the surgeons to perform the robotic surgery in their institutions and all of the complications then are the fault of INTUITIVE!? When does the Doctor do a self evaluation in order to say...I need further training, or I do not have skilled hands and I should not do this surgery!? When does the hospital do their evaluations of the "unskilled surgeons" to say: Doctor, you may NOT have the privledge to do this surgery. I dont understand how complications of surgery fall souly on the marketing campaing of the surgeons. How does a Rep, who has not gone to medical school, who has never been trained to perform surgery have the knowledge or ability to evaluate the skill of a surgeon...shouldn't that evaluation be done by other surgeons? Aggressive marketing campaign!? Give me a break! Watch TV...what about the aggressive marketing of a lawyers advertising frivolous lawsuits! I have seen billboards advertising a website: www.whocanisue.com! This is nothing but another ploy to destroy corporate america by atttacking the newest, greatest and most innovative technology the world has ever seen!
Pipe down Suzy Robot, everything you are reading is true. Seen it, Done it. The robot is a way for terrible surgeons 20 years behind the curve to attempt to be better at their craft, in reality they are still terrible and just make their craft more expensive and time consuming sometimes with dangerous (and did I mention really expensive) consiquences. The reps are the SOLE entity pushing it.
Question:
Do reps get paid if the robot doesn't dock?
Within the answer to the above question lies the truth.
Pipe down Suzy Robot, everything you are reading is true. Seen it, Done it. The robot is a way for terrible surgeons 20 years behind the curve to attempt to be better at their craft, in reality they are still terrible and just make their craft more expensive and time consuming sometimes with dangerous (and did I mention really expensive) consiquences. The reps are the SOLE entity pushing it.
Question:
Do reps get paid if the robot doesn't dock?
Within the answer to the above question lies the truth.
Whoever that female "former CSR" was in the interview was, she was spot on!! Very accurate description of the culture and environment as well as the referance to the corporate emails quoting the need to get surgeons to "convert". My former CSM (B.K.) and CSD (M.T.) were obsessed with numbers and conversions..... Uh, oh, I mean patients......
