Are doctors patsies for the medical device industry?  Are patients put in harm’s way for lack of tough standards on new device approvals?  We examine the question with Jeanne Lenzer, award-winning investigative journalist and author of The Danger Within Us: America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It. GUEST: Jeanne Lenzer’s…

Are doctors patsies for the medical device industry? Are patients put in harm’s way for lack of tough standards on new device approvals? We examine the question with Jeanne Lenzer, award-winning investigative journalist and author of The Danger Within Us: America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It. GUEST: Jeanne Lenzer’s…

Are doctors patsies for the medical device industry?&nbsp; Are patients put in harm’s way for lack of tough standards on new device approvals?&nbsp; We examine the question with Jeanne Lenzer, award-winning investigative journalist and author of The Danger Within Us:&nbsp;America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It. GUEST: Jeanne Lenzer’s…

Ep. 28 Jeanne Lenzer: The case for tougher medical device regulation

This is a show for all those who love medicine but have grown weary of this vast boondoggle called the health care system.  We produce an episode once a week and we regularly bring in guests that we put on the hot seat.  We discuss current topics in medical science, policy, economics, and ethics, always with an eye toward safeguarding the doctor-patient relationship.  We bring fresh, provocative insights that resonate with physicians in the trenches who are determined not to let their passion for medicine be ground to a pulp.

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This is a show for all those who love medicine but have grown weary of this vast boondoggle called the health care system. We produce an episode once a week and we regularly bring in guests that we put on the hot seat. We discuss current topics in medical science, policy, economics, and ethics, always with an eye toward safeguarding the doctor-patient relationship. We bring fresh, provocative insights that resonate with physicians in the trenches who are determined not to let their passion for medicine be ground to a pulp.

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Ep. 28 Jeanne Lenzer: The case for tougher medical device regulation

Ep. 28 Jeanne Lenzer: The case for tougher medical device regulation