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I don't necessarily dispute the data, but to refer to physicians writing a scientific paper as "Jai Raman at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and a few pals" and "Raman and co" is s bit unusual.
Totally disheartening
Ummmmmmmmm. Zero ???
So, you're only meaningful experience with a physician was a relationship with a neighbor that you weren't very friendly with. Yet you speak with absolute knowledge and conviction and your opinions.
Doctors on salary are still subject to financial targets, based on billables and RVUs and hustle to satisfy their employers, whether it is a hospital, health system, or university.
In calling doctors greedy and implying that they are overpaid, you failed to take into account the significant opportunity cost involved in becoming a physician. I went through four years of college, four years of medical school and five years of residency at less than minimum wage before I had my first "real" job at the age of 31. It was not uncommon to be away from my family for an average of 120+ hours per week.
A physician is under extreme pressure at all times as patients' lives are at stake with every decision that we make. We cannot bring our "B" game to work. We are expected to perform at the highest level with no mistakes at any time because the consequences are so great.
In other words we live under the philosophy that we "cannot make any mistakes". You seem to live under the philosophy that you "cannot be wrong at any time".
My FINAL response to you:
Don’t argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. —Greg King
Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. —Mark Twain
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. —Proverbs 26:4 (King James version)
I have better things to do with my time.
Scalpel
Try this:
http://ispub.com/IJANP/12/1/2942
I have no personal experience with this technology
It's higher than that around here
I am a practicing academic surgeon. I know medicine and I know operating rooms and the technologies associated with them.
I do not know a lot about technical analysis, or the intricacies of commodities trading. I therefore defer to the purported experts on these matters.
However when posts are made that are factually inaccurate and/or incorrect that may affect other investors that are naïve to the fact, I feel compelled to reply.
I appreciate the double-team, and accept the challenge to be the only vetted poster on this message board.
With respect to your implication that every physician in the country received $64,000 to participate in a centralized database, you are completely off-base. There is no centralized database.
The $64,000 that you allude to refers to a stipend given to private practitioners to allow them to comply with the earlier law (2009) that required all practices to use an electronic medical record. The deadline for compliance was 1/1/14.
Thanks for the sarcasm. I don't need a lesson on how to write prescriptions. I am a practicing physician, licensed in two states. I have been writing prescriptions for 30 years under the aegis of one of the top five medical schools in the country. Or should I ask Google to search the rules for me.
Most states do not serial numbers on prescriptions. NJ does; PA does not.
The requirements for documentation of date, patient name, MD license number, etc. do not make this a "legal document." It is a document with rules and requirements to its deployment.
My point about scribbling on a pad is that many doctors do not employ an electronic medical record and still hand write prescriptions on small pieces of paper. There is no way to monitor this activity via a database. Prescription filled by a pharmacist/pharmacy is a different story.
The rule about new prescriptions vs renewals of prescriptions is mandated by the insurance companies. In addition, essentially all prescription plans require that these renewals be done by mail from a pharmacy clearinghouse such as Caremark or Express Scripts.
I am not trying to argue semantics with you. I was just trying to clarify my thoughts about the ability to get accurate numbers on new and renewal prescriptions.
A lot of probables in your treatise.
Most long term renewal prescriptions are written for THREE MONTH intervals. A first time prescription most likely is written for ONE month.
Prescriptions are NOT legal documents. Most doctors still scribble them on small 3 x 5" pads.
Welcome back Capt. FUD. is that a promise? If we stay above $1, you will stay away?????
I am not going anywhere. Remain long and strong. Just not adding anything right now. You are stuck with me for the long haul.
Not sure how Siri did that to me. Don't let the wagon get in front of the horse....
Just don't like the horse before the wagon. One should NEVER invest on the hopes or rumors of a M/A (Cramer rule). Look what happened with TWTR yesterday.
I remain optimistic but realistic.
The only spot of green on my portfolio today. Go figure.
I like your train of thought.
Understand however that there will be dilution either way. This will either occur from a drop in shareprice and a direct dilution by another offering, or with a rise in stock and warrant exercising.
If the price drops, the warrants will expire unfilled. The end dilution will be the same.
Agree 100%. Would think bargain shopping and buying more is the way to go, but the person in the bottom of the hole has to recognize that it might be time to stop digging.
I scanned down to "Titan" and saw "FDA" and "2017"
I thought English was the language of choice on this message board
So the FUD (fear, uncertainty, doom; no need to censure me again) triplets of LTG, Diamond and elcaribes all agree.
GO FIGURE
Here's hoping that Greece doesn't urinate in our Corn Flakes tomorrow. Dow futures currently down $260
Maybe it will go as low as $.10. Then I can buy a gazillion billion shares!
Are diamond and elcaribes the same person ?
I'm guilty as charged
Don't you think it's time Titan started getting the market interested? Don't you think it is time Titan stopped being a penny stock?
Yes, but my opinion, and yours, mean nothing in the big picture exclamation
Any changes? Or just the internet hangover from the storms last night?
He doesn't do penny stocks
Actually down 49% in ONE DAY. It's been trading sideways for the last 7 months
I WAS disappointed by the quality of the AGM video, but not by the robot itself.
This obviously was not released as a publicity play, it was just to show the robot being used.
One can only hope that publicity release will be slicker.
A few points:
Insufflation occurs through the 19 mm port; no additional port is needed for this.
Two instruments are barely adequate for most advanced laparoscopic procedures and a third port may be necessary to add a grasper or other instrument. This is NOT a deal breaker for surgeons.
If a procedure were to require additional instruments, additional ports could easily be added without denigrating the robotic experience for the surgeon or the patient.
Some comments from a surgical point of view:
1. The robot performed admirably.
2. Remember the video is a two dimensional capture of the three-dimensional view the surgeon had.
3. An additional arm through a separate trocar is NOT A deal killer.
4. 1.9 cm vs. 2.5 cm for the primary access port is a significant positive.
5 Lastly, and most importantly, I think that the quality of the surgeon's performance leaves much to be desired, but we cannot judge SPORT harshly because of that. It's been a few years since I sat behind the controls of a da Vinci robot, but I KNOW that I could have done better with an hour or two of practice before the recorder was turned on (that is how surgeons think)
Then why make this the debutante video?
Hard to compare two arms to three. Suturing appears to be easy to do but there was some fumbling with the needle
I would say that the robot performed admirably. Impressed with the mobility of the arms. The surgeon's technique, on the other hand, leaves some to be desired.
Haven't you seen the movie Beetlejuice? Why do you mention him?
Crickets on the TSX today
"Surgeon"....just saying.
Agree. Sleek small footprint.
I am working in a 900 sq ft OR today (that's a big one, FYI) with a daVinci parked in the "corner" and we are claustrophobic.
This IS a game changer.