Flaws in St. Jude Heart Defibrillator Shake the Industry - NYTimes.com

The Times headline writer needs to do this one over.  Implanted cardiac defibrillators are failing in high numbers and the implant makers are shaken?  How about the patients?  I wonder if the eight Supreme Court justices who exempted the makers from tort liability for defective design are shaken.  [Only Ruth Ginsburg dissented in Riegel v. Medtronic (1968)].  How about you Congressmen and Senators - will you heed the call? - GWC
Flaws in St. Jude Heart Defibrillator Shake the Industry - NYTimes.com: 
by Barry Meier and Katie Thomas

"Last October, a high school football coach named Greg Jessee was standing on the sidelines watching his son play when he felt a jolt to his chest. The heart defibrillator implanted in him five years earlier was firing wildly. The next jolt made him double up. The one after that knocked him unconscious."

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