Comments on: Patients are the cobblestones on the path to doctors profits https://earlsview.com/2011/07/12/patients-are-the-cobblestones-on-the-path-to-doctors-profits/ News and Views Sun, 06 Oct 2013 20:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: earlstevens58 https://earlsview.com/2011/07/12/patients-are-the-cobblestones-on-the-path-to-doctors-profits/#comment-232 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:40:37 +0000 https://earlstevens58.wordpress.com/?p=2332#comment-232 Howard

your points are well made – have blogged them!

Earl

]]> By: Howard Sadwin https://earlsview.com/2011/07/12/patients-are-the-cobblestones-on-the-path-to-doctors-profits/#comment-220 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:53:44 +0000 https://earlstevens58.wordpress.com/?p=2332#comment-220 Earl, you are right, are people affraid of speaking up re: Smith & Nephew problems?
In reading reports on the BHR, referrences of data from Smith & Nephew’s BHR are taken from the same controlled group of 2385 patients that McMinn seems to control. Then there is reference from 140 surgeons who supposedily were responsible for 3800 hip implants.
The first attempt by Smith & Nephew to get their hip device approved by the FDA was denied in 2004, by a 3/2 vote. One of the major concerns expressed by the FDA was the data used in reporting results came from the ( I believe ) same 2385 patients, and McMinn the inventor of the BHR, worked for Smith & Nephew at the time, and he had a huge pay day for his BHR, supposidly over $100,000,000.
In 2006 the FDA through teir 510k plan approved the device by 3/2 vote and the company used the same basic information; used for denial now approved.
Well here we are years later and I still see reference to the same 2385 patient test group being used for statistics?
Qeuestions: if a study were done taking the history of hip devices; when they were approved, how approved, good and bad results taken randomally, would we discover company A says we are introducing xyz hip device, then company B says we are introducing 123 hip etc. Would we see a pattern that may believe one to suspect market control of pricing these devices?
I have not found Smith & Nephew’s be aware of problems list, other than articles you have to dig for, however your site has brought some of us that have suffered using the BHR. Their name doesn’t appear as having potential problems. Their product was metal on metal same materials used in other devices by DePuy, Stryker, etc. there aren’t as many people suffering from the BHR as with other manufacturers, however just because there hasn’t been a recall on the BHR, fact remains metal on metal present issues that affect the quality of our lives.
The continueous use of the same 2385 BHR patients is absolute Bull Sh-t, don’t you think?
So BHR victems speak up if it is justice you seek.
Respectfully
Howard Sadwin

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