The Baltimore Sun reports that salespeople selling cardiac stents made by Abbot Laboratories often attended the surgeries of people who were receiving the stents, even though the hospital had banned salespeople from the operating rooms. News of the broken rule came up in a lawsuit against a Towson cardiologist, who has been accused of implanting cardiac stents in people who did not need them. The cardiologist testified that he knew the salespeople from seeing them in the lab.
The presence of salespeople during stent procedures raises serious questions about the impact their sales have on the number of stent implants that occur in the U.S. each year. Many people have stents implanted when they don’t really need them, which can cost $10,000 or more per procedure, and that greatly increases the patient’s risk of stent implant injury.
A close relationship between doctors who implant stents and the salespeople who sell them may result in an increase of unnecessary stent implants, due to the influence of the salespeople on the physician’s decision-making process. Some physicians and others suspect that the relationship between the Towson cardiologist and the salespeople in his operating rooms may have lead to the large number of unnecessary stents the cardiologist inserted in various patients.
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