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[Anonymous]

Dude, not sure what planet you live on, but here on earth "value" does not figure into the equation with robotic surgery. If history is any indicator, hospitals will buy the stapler and surgeons will use it, without any significant clinical evidence of superiority and despite the increase in cost. Get used to it.

not in my 4 years it wont
-Obama

 

[Anonymous]

Dude, if you are truly that ignorant to think you have this much power after 4 years in your role, then you really have no idea how hospitals work.

http://www.iienet.org/uploadedfiles/Webcasts/SHS_VA_Presentation.pdf

Lovely presentation, but I'm serious. Ask any robotic team lead, or better yet, any value analysis team member if they have ever had to send a new da Vinci product to value analysis. The only thing I have seen are business plans written up by an OR director that she presents to board when needing to purchase an additional robot. Remember, once a hospital has a robot they no longer need new instrumentation approved (unless new capital is required, which follows the process I mentioned above). It's all considered part of the assumed necessities of performing robotics. A stapler is just another accessory needed to perform a better robotic procedure.

 

[Anonymous]

Lovely presentation, but I'm serious. Ask any robotic team lead, or better yet, any value analysis team member if they have ever had to send a new da Vinci product to value analysis. The only thing I have seen are business plans written up by an OR director that she presents to board when needing to purchase an additional robot. Remember, once a hospital has a robot they no longer need new instrumentation approved (unless new capital is required, which follows the process I mentioned above). It's all considered part of the assumed necessities of performing robotics. A stapler is just another accessory needed to perform a better robotic procedure.

Ha, that's funny. If this is true, how could anyone ever miss their quota, or get fired from this place? You could just walk around the OR on the last day of the quarter, and tell the OR director to order in whatever you want....

Damn, must be nice.

I'd be happy to bs my way through any role play, delta mgmt calls, and other micro mgmt crap they dish out. If the customer drops their pants whenever I tell them to.... SIGN ME UP!

 

[Anonymous]

ISRG CSR reps don't get evaluated on revenue, all the weight is on procedures per quarter.

 

[Anonymous]

ethicon reps are coming to take all of your places.....they actually need reps to do more than pee down there own leg all day long....HERE WE COME!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA
they want reps who can sell, competively, and not walk around the hospital with a suit and no tie(I think that look is over) with a white board doing a schedule for the docs...they want closers...not whiners....so here we come...get used to it - look at your #s iN training CLASS this week - how many ethicon and covidien reps...20??30???...HERE WE COME!!!!!!! and what does you know about stapling???nothing at all

 

[Anonymous]

Value analysis committees?! Never in my 4 years at ISI, have I even had to hear the words 'value analysis committee'. I've never been in the purchasing office of a hospital since taking this job. Docs request to C-suite, and C-suite gets it done. Administration doesn't usually like us, b/c we have so much power being a monopoly and we can instill a stronger sense of urgency. If the right docs want our new technology, they usually don't have to wait too long to get it.

Affordable.Care.Act. Get familiar with those Value Analysis people. They are running the ship.