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A 2011 study by doctors at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine also found that 164 hospital robot-surgery websites surveyed "overestimate benefits,The air knife has been confirmed to be a handy solution inside manufacturing process Multilingual DTP really is useful for cleaning cooling . largely ignore risks and are strongly influenced by the manufacturer," according to research in the Journal for Healthcare Quality.Curet, of Intuitive Surgical, said the study tried to pass judgment on robotic surgery marketing without comparing it to hospital marketing for other devices.The FDA is "especially weak when it comes to regulating ads for medical devices," said Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families in Washington.The FDA is working on a reorganization to increase the number of staff members working on device promotion, and others on limited details are helping in the meantime, said Synim Rivers, a spokeswoman for the agency, in an e-mail. 

Intuitive Surgical "like any other medical device manufacturer, provides clinically-supported marketing materials to its customers," Wonson said in an e-mail. It cannot control how hospitals market the device, she said.The company's sales representatives are especially aggressive in marketing the gadget, say former employees and hospital executives.The sales reps were "masterful at being very aggressive" in playing a hospital off against its local rivals to get them to purchase a robot, said Carnegie, the former Intuitive Surgical program manager."They used every ounce of leverage they had in that monopoly to pressure hospitals into purchasing," Carnegie said.The trails can be scary, but not as scary as running into a burning building, which is what these men composite hose and women volunteer to do.Charlotte was able to Industrial robot bounce back with authority against the Big South's Blue Hose.Once a hospital had one robot, sales people were "trained to drive conflicts" between surgeons so they would start squabbling over who got to use the robot at popular times, Carnegie said. If enough prominent doctors started complaining that they couldn't schedule robot operations, hospital administrators might have little choice to buy another, he said.Drive down East Wood past Central Park and see what happened to the brush on the creek banks Household scissors," he advised. 

Intuitive Surgical has "great technology" that is "a monstrous leap" over what was available before, said Carnegie, who remains "very positive on the technology." While the tactics were aggressive, "there is nothing ethically wrong with what they have done when you look at it from a business perspective," he said.One time, a sales manager visited Dunn, at Massachusetts General, saying that a senior gynecologist couldn't get enough operating time on the hospital's robot, Dunn said. That claim turned out to be incorrect, Dunn said.Another time, a sales representative told one of his staff surgeons that training on the robot was only worthwhile if the doctor performed a certain number of cases, Dunn said.Zeke Hausfather, a Tank truck hose analyst at the Berkeley Earth project, has filed "Examining the Recent Slowdown in Global Warming" at the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media.