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Old 01-31-2008, 03:13 AM
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Sonata, thanks for the post. That's a great article. It demonstrates serious questions about how we develop products and potential conflicts of interests.

I learned very early on in my career as a spine patient that all the data should be taken with a grain of salt. There are huge amounts of money at stake and there are serious problems with some of the data. I'm not saying that the system is broken, but it's VERY far from perfect.

I'm going to add the article to the library here, so if the link disappears, it will still be available. (Won't happen till next week... it's after 4am her in Straubing and I'm still working...)

All the best... talk to you soon,

Mark
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