epitome of stupidity #1
this is the first edition of what is sure to be a regular posting topic. it might have been named "things that make you go, huh?", but epitome of stupidity seems catchier and more original.
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[arizona] seems the purchasing manager for advanced cardiac specialist inc. has been buying pacemakers from eBay. odds are, something is going to wrong when you start installing used parts when doing repair work on a human - especially when you pay $200 for a device that is supposed to be worth $6,000. turns out that at least two of the pacemakers were "hot", a.k.a. stolen. and yes, one of the pacemakers was implanted before this little bit of information surfaced. and (big surprise here!), the pacemaker that was implanted immediately began to malfunction. no! really! who'd a thunk it?!?!?!
i'm not sure which disturbs me most - (1) the fact that hospitals are installing used parts, (2) the fact that they are getting them from eBay, (3) the fact that they didn't feel the need to test the used and unbelievably cheap pacemaker before installing it, (4) the fact that criminals are brazen enough to pawn their stolen property via the web, or (5) the fact that i now need to get a parts history (ala vehicle report) before i get any major work done on my body.
want more: http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=3102573&nav=23KuXhuI
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/04/star_tribune_is.html
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[arizona] seems the purchasing manager for advanced cardiac specialist inc. has been buying pacemakers from eBay. odds are, something is going to wrong when you start installing used parts when doing repair work on a human - especially when you pay $200 for a device that is supposed to be worth $6,000. turns out that at least two of the pacemakers were "hot", a.k.a. stolen. and yes, one of the pacemakers was implanted before this little bit of information surfaced. and (big surprise here!), the pacemaker that was implanted immediately began to malfunction. no! really! who'd a thunk it?!?!?!
i'm not sure which disturbs me most - (1) the fact that hospitals are installing used parts, (2) the fact that they are getting them from eBay, (3) the fact that they didn't feel the need to test the used and unbelievably cheap pacemaker before installing it, (4) the fact that criminals are brazen enough to pawn their stolen property via the web, or (5) the fact that i now need to get a parts history (ala vehicle report) before i get any major work done on my body.
want more: http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=3102573&nav=23KuXhuI
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/04/star_tribune_is.html
posted by secretsquirrel | 12:33 AM
5 Comments:
so, the stolen pacemakers...they weren't stolen out of someone's chest were they?
lol . . . that's only funny because it didn't happen that way. they were stolen from a hospital in sacramento.
i was wondering that, too. (but i'm smart enough not to be the 1st to ask) i thought maybe someone had been going @, digging up heart patients. of course, those wouldn't necessarily be the parts i'd want, either. i mean, they're dead. did the pacemakers have a role in their demise?
& of course there's always the problem of haunted hearts...
hmm . . . a haunted heart, or pacemaker as it were - sounds like a movie script. i'm envisioning something very stephen kingish (ala maximum overdrive).
that's the same thing i thought of reading chris' response.
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