At what point did selling orthopedic products stop being about clinical value and patient outcomes—transforming entirely into a game of wrangling access, locking down contracts, and navigating the bureaucratic maze of VACs?
Read the best 8 answers from my posting of this question.
1/ When achieving quota became the priority placing shareholders before patients. (from https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-raggio-pe-10383229/)
2/ Two spots in time... When hospitals merged and became health systems and when surgeons (roughly 2 in 3) sold their practices to these health systems. (from https://www.lin...