Saturday, April 3, 2010

Cautionary Tales of Latest Health Implants, Ex. CI

There is the recent New York Times (NYT) article on the questionable health implants like the "inferior quality" artifical hip implants implanted in too many people unitl too late. Defective cochlear implants (CI) have been detected in increased numbers lately, too. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36158151/ns/business-the_new_york_times

http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/2816

Not many parents and deaf cochelar implantees realize that they have to pay out of their own pockets for the removal of cochlear implant device along with the cost of extensive surgery, too.

That ought to be the pretty cautionary tales for idealistic and clueless parents to normalize their deaf babies and youngsters with the cochlear implants.

The fine examples of parents' tendency to trust the authority figures in cloth like doctors and priests. Parents never raise the concerns about their children being around priests "wolf in the sheep's cloth". Doctors and audiologists are also wolves in sheeps' cloth, too.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)



9 comments:

  1. RLM, I don't see anything about CI in that article. My grandmother had hip replacement and hers never failed. Granted, there are devices that fails. What doesn't?!! I think the point of that article is warranty issue. Most manufacturers will replace it for free if they say it's supposed to last that long. As far as I can tell, CI are replaceable if it fails. You need to do your homework and find out from CI recipients whether or not the company replaced theirs when it fails. Remember, not one man made thing is without flaw. This includes the computer you are typing on right now.

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  2. Candy You'd sure sue if your CI is flawed. Sure sure you'd do that. Don't think tht deaf people're that stupid!!!!

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  3. Anonymous, you don't seem to understand my comment so I'm not going to respond to yours.

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  4. The latest passage of health care reform will change everything what doctors do to patients.

    Republicans surely will manage to pass the law that doctors do not have to pay any malpractices.

    The government might step in and disown any flawed body replacements as part of costly health care intitatives or refuse to replace any flawed medical devices. Who knows?

    The Advanced Bionics CI manfacturer knew about the defective CI devices since 2000, but the discovery of those flawed CIs in 2008. Why take so long for the complaints raised as the legal suits begun in 2009.

    RLM

    RLM

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  5. Anonymous at 2:19 PM on Apr 3,

    Candy is correct. You do not understand how the CI works and the health care system. What if a person who have lived with CI for 20+ years gets replaced for a particular reason. Due to fade and malfunction. It's the same as the hearing aids. Worn out, for instance.

    When you wear your favorite blue jean for long time until your blue jean gets a hole on your butt. Then you fix, patch and sew on your blue jean. Happy? You betcha.

    White Ghost

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  6. White Ghost,

    Yeah, I patch up my Jeans. Looove patched up Jeans!


    RLM, dream on.

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  7. One more thing, RLM, you said: "The latest passage of health care reform will change everything what doctors do to patients."

    You make it sound like the government makes decisions which is far from truth. Since this health care reform, what changed for me is NOTHING except I get to add my over 22 yr old kid to my health insurance, yay! And, as far as the insurance policy goes, nothing changed. Many people will have the option of picking which insurance they want and they (most) have to pay for it based on their income level. It's not going to change how insurance decides what gets covered.

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  8. Candy!

    Wrong....no 22 years old kid to cover your health insurance. It's going to be 26 years old kid!

    Plus, we pay and give some credits for the small business as well!

    I think we should give this anonymous a new girl scout patch so he/she can sew and cover on the blue jeans' hole. ;-)

    White Ghost

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  9. White Ghost,

    You're right...that's what I meant about going from 22 to 26... talk about lost in translation heehee.

    Now, I don't think it would be fair...I had to sew first and then earn a patch. Let this anonymous earn his keep first.

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