This HND piece invokes the first line from Lydia Maria Child's "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day" (1844). Child was always on the side of the oppressed, and I suspect that she would have a few things to say about our present day healthcare system.
The article examines the continuing saga over infection control issues relating to certain types of endoscopes. We're talking about a double recall involving 2800 units of a commonly used "reprocessor" for these scopes. That the FDA was asleep at the switch on this one is quite an understatement.
We also open the huge topic of conflicts of interest in healthcare (such as Big Pharma buying influence), even though this matter seems to downplayed by the New England Journal of Medicine. I'm sure that NEJM's position has nothing at all to due with the fact that absent Big Pharma advertising, it would cease to exist.
Read the complete article.
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