Steak Dinners, Sales Reps and Risky Procedures: Inside the Big Business of Clogged Arteries

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Steak Dinners, Sales Reps and Risky Procedures: Inside the Big Business of Clogged Arteries​

by Annie Waldman Feb. 16, 5 a.m. EST

On June 14, 2017, just before noon, a doctor made an incision near a patient’s groin. Kari Kirk, a representative for the world’s largest medical device company, Medtronic, looked on and began texting her colleague a play-by-play.

“Fixing both legs from the ankles,” she wrote.

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Steak Dinners, Sales Reps and Risky Procedures: Inside the Big Business of Clogged Arteries

Text messages, a whistleblower lawsuit and an internal investigation reveal the lengths to which Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, allegedly “groomed” doctors to overuse its vascular products in patients at a veterans hospital.

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