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Old 03-05-2012, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by ballerina View Post
Spinal Cord Stimulators and CRPS-It's all about money. By the time the device failed they wouldn't give a rip if you would be "trouble" or not. You would just be politely, or impolitely referred elsewhere. They would have already made their money on the implantation.
So how is it that some pain programs are corrupt and others are not? (I am informed that the pain center at USC does not - as a matter of policy - implant SCS's in CRPS patients.) I suppose it happens the moment a physician pitches a "center" as a profit-center to his or her technically non-profit institution.

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