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The Beat Goes On

By Michael Blankenship

Word quickly reached top executives at Abbott Laboratories that a Baltimore cardiologist, Dr. Mark Midei, had inserted 30 of the company?s cardiac stents in a single day in August 2008, ?which is the biggest day I remember hearing about,? an executive wrote in a celebratory e-mail. Two days later, an Abbott sales representative spent $2,159 to buy a whole, slow-smoked pig, peach cobbler and other fixings for a barbecue dinner at Dr. Midei?s home, according to a report being released Monday by the Senate. The dinner was just a small part of the millions in salary and perks showered on Dr. Midei for putting more stents in more patients than almost any other cardiologist in Baltimore. Read more...  The senators solicited 10,000 documents from Abbott and St...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on December 06, 2010 (boomark / email).