I respectfully cannot comply. It is easy to throw stones, but it is hard to innovate things. No one involved in this project, I’m sure wanted it to fail or have patients get hurt. Just like when we do surgeries, we can have good intentions and bad outcomes.

Fortunately, Charnley‘s first hip did well, but if the first few had a rash of dislocations and massive poly wear, which are now known issues with the surgery, it would’ve never been picked up at all. We would’ve had many millions of patients suffer with horrible arthritis.

Orbay‘s first volar locking plates did well, but if they all led to FPL rupture, that would’ve never picked up either and many millions of people would’ve had harder outcomes after a common injury. 

This recall looks like a manufacturing issue, which can be solved. The ultimate question about this technology working at all remains unsettled as far as I can tell. Though my belief is that for patients who need mechanical solutions, they need to be robust. Otherwise, I would look at pain modulation, and Biologics