Not even close to Smart Lab out of Florida.

What is Tom up to these days?

It's a tough market. Their revenue isn't substantial and the market isn't very friendly to underperforming robotic surgery companies. Look at Titan Medical and TransEnterix. Sure, Titan doesn't have a system on the market yet but TransEnterix does and they are having a hard time selling it.

The fact is, Intuitive Surgical is too big, powerful and funded for these small players to actually compete.

Could one of you on this board give any tips that could be useful for the video and phone interview with Stryker?

I have mine scheduled for next week. The Gallup went fine and moving on to the next stage. The video interview is more concerning to me than the phone interview. Any good tips and advice would be great!

update please

The preliminary numbers for 2018 look really bad. If I was the board, Rami would be getting a lot of tough questions. His plan has been schizophrenic which is why he needs a VP.

Originally the goal was to slowly expand the sales team so the reps could build the business by growing customers SCS practices. Then everyone quit or were fired. Next they had to hire replacements. Then those reps quit or were fired. And again it happened. Now it seems like they are expanding more than just the reps the…

The meta analysis and warning from the FDA saying that paclitaxel coated devices could increase death after two years was not a good situation for the business. I'm happy with how the company responded though.

I'll give Jeff Mirviss credit for tackling this head on. Below are some of his quotes:

“All of the other devices, including the Zilver PTX stent, have a coating where the coating comes off to deliver the drug. Eluvia is an eluting technology, with a polymer that has the drug incorporated…

I'm hearing a deal is being discussed at NANS...we shall see.

I noticed United Healthcare sued a group of generic drug companies for price fixing their generic drugs. Humana recently filed a similar suit. Both insurers are trying to get back financial loses that they say are due to inflated prices.

The collusion case was also brought by the federal government, targeting a group of "core conspirators" that includes Teva and Mylan, as well as dozens of other drugmakers.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but good for the insurance companies. These drug compani…

The implant industry is over saturated these days. Very hard to make good money.

NSM stories....

You tell me. Sounds like you have a beef w someone.

Take a look at the posts on this thread and you can see why. I get the sense there were a lot of lawyers chasing patients who had less than desirable surgical results with the da Vinci. A little expert tip for ya: start with your surgeon despite what your lawyers want you to believe. The da Vinci doesn't control itself, the surgeon controls it.

probably because most full time employees and managers don’t even work 20 hours a weeks, from what I saw, while treating the contractors like doormats and an easy excuse to save money after recalling about 160, 000 and hiding this from once

The referral comes from cardiologists but patients are becoming more educated about AFib because of devices like the Apple Watch so the cardiologists are seeing more patients with AFib.

Cardiologists also aren't dumb. Tech has changed in the last 8 years since CABANA started. The results of newer devices can't be compared to those in the study. How else can you explain the strong growth for Thermocool Smarttouch? If you aren't seeing success you may want to get that resume cleaned up.