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Written by Rood at 20 Dec 2002 23:08:34: Re: Cash cow scam
As an answer to: Then from the US FDA written by Paul B. at 20 Dec 2002 19:19:18:
The resident Urologist at PROCIRC and Circlist, Dr. David Cornell of Atlanta, Ga, has just raised his circumcision fee from $750.00 to $1,000.00. The preliminary consultation fee went from $65.00 to $100.00. Now that he has a captive audience eating out of his hand...why not? How else to pay for his trips abroad.
>> Interesting reading from the US FDA/ Maybe they're finally starting to get it..... http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/safety/circumcision.html
>Jim is of course correct - this is no more than a cautionary note about surgical tools, to an audience which presumably, contains a significant element too inept to even check their instruments as they use them.
>The blunders that they describe, most certainly imply a degree of incompetence or recklessness that reflects on the users rather more than the instruments, but is entirely consistent with the attitude we already realise - this is a "cash cow" scam perpetrated on an populace far too ignorant to twig.
>Knowing just how frequent it is to encounter a defective instrument which by rights should have been culled in the CSD, or that has been previously reported, I know only too well how routine such warnings (this one is, by the way, over two years old!) are, so the suggestion that this should in any way provoke revelation into the wisdom or indeed, otherwise, of circumcision, is really quite futile.
>Perhaps you should look at it in context - look at the index page which contains that advisory, or even the CDRH site in general. How many other things are there about which to "get the message"?