NBA legend Bill Walton leads med-tech delegation to Capitol Hill (Mass Device)
The medical device industry unleashes one of its best weapons on the congress: Patients.
Bill Walton might be the medical device industry's best customer.
The 59-year-old former NBA player and basketball legend has had 36 orthopedic procedures, starting with his first surgery at 13 years old.
But it was a spinal fusion surgery in 2009, known as a minimally disruptive XLIF procedure, that turned his life around and made him an evangelist both for San Diego, Calif.-based NuVasive Inc.(NSDQ:NUVA) and the med-tech i...
