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Cobalt, comorbidity, DePuy, Health, Hip Replacement, Medicine, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, surgery, toxicity, UNited States
It seems the big Orthopaedic companies are working behind the scenes to counter the obvious fallout from cobalt toxicity caused by their devices.
Read this article: Prosthetic Hip-Associated Cobalt Toxicity
This text in the article makes my blood boil…
Based on our experience, the evaluation of systemic cobalt toxicity is often complicated by patient anxiety, comorbid conditions, or secondary financial gain.
Really… the authors have their heads where the sun don’t shine…
Here’s another one …. Clinical Features, Testing, and Management of Patients with Suspected Prosthetic Hip-Associated Cobalt Toxicity: a Systematic Review of Cases
To the contrary… There heads are in their pocketbooks…..
Connie
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That too!!!
It wouldn’t be polite to leave comment on my thoughts regarding the …….. ………’s who have come to these conclusions!!!!!! AND they call themselves educated????
They have done an inadequate search of the literature and have trotted out a party line calling patients idiots.