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17 hours ago in Patient Focus
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.
1 year ago
5 months ago in Patient Focus
The documentary highlighted A LOT of bad things going on with the da Vinci.
6 months ago in Patient Focus
That film was so scathing there was no chance they could have saved anything.
7 months ago in Patient Focus
This is from years ago. Why rehash it now?
2 years ago
9 months ago in Patient Focus
You and the rest of the ISI rats are going straight to ****.
DWAS
9 months ago in Patient Focus
1 year ago in Patient Focus
No proof you say? Go read 2017-03-13 066 Redacted Pl MPSJ Memorandum from Pohly vs. Intuitive and get back too us.
A lot people know about these internal documents from Intuitive and they do prove the company knew. These documents have and will be continued to be used in injury court cases. They prove the Intuitive knew for years about their defective tools and told no one and didn't take them off the market even after injury and deaths started being reported. Since then 277 deaths ha…
2 years ago
1 year ago in Patient Focus
'Technology is not always the answer,' says one doctor https://t.co/ijaEe2MuDr
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 30, 2017
1 year ago in Patient Focus
yep
2 years ago in Patient Focus
2 years ago
2 years ago in Patient Focus
Finally someone making sense.
2 years ago in Patient Focus
A British woman who underwent surgery to improve her sex life ended up with none — after her vagina mutilated her partner’s penis.
2 years ago in Patient Focus
To the OP, has a physician or the company said what percentage of patients have these horrible side effects?
2 years ago
2 years ago in Patient Focus
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
191 N. FIRST STREET
SAN JOSE, CA 95113-1090
TO: FILE COPY
RE: Saraniti v. Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
CASE NUMBER: 2013-1-CV-251195
RE: Wray, et al. v. Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
CASE NUMBER: 2013-1-CV-252128
RE: Hershey, et al. v. Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
CASE NUMBER: 2013-1-CV-254274
RE: Small v. Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
CASE NUMBER: 2013-1-CV-255587
NOTICE OF SPECIAL SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE
The above entitled case has been set for a Special Settlement Conferenc…
3 years ago in Patient Focus
DWAS is so boring.