Why is that salesman in the operating room for your knee replacement? (Washington Post)
(Jeannie Phan for The Washington Post)
By Sandra G. Boodman November 14
They are a little-known presence in many operating rooms, offering technical expertise to surgeons installing new knees, implanting cardiac defibrillators or performing delicate spine surgery.
Often called device reps — or by the more cumbersome and less transparent moniker “health-care industry representatives” — these salespeople are employed by the companies that make medical devices: Stryker, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic, to...
