No physician inventor should apologize for making money off an innovation that improves medicine. Certain orthopedic surgeons, however, have pushed a tenuous ethical line in how they distribute their own devices.
Entrepreneurial surgeons have formed medical device companies to develop, manufacture and distribute implantable plates, rods and screws used to fix maladies such as spine fractures.
The perception of conflict of interest can be raised when surgeons purchase devices from their own company. If a surgeon developed a new device due to their strong belief in the device’s improved performance, however, it only makes sense to want to use that new device.
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