Tiger Buford explains why comparing orthopedic devices is pointless: manufacturers design their own studies with different endpoints, and implants take 15-20 years to fail, by which time the product is already discontinued. A Stryker knee from 2003 is gone from the market.
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So, Tiger, I was curious, your statement was that clinical outcomes sound like you're saying that it didn't matter anymore. What do you mean by that? I didn't understand.
So the way every device company creates their own study to make their stuff look good and the way they do the study, it's impossible to compare it to another product. It's all apples and oranges. They're measuring different things. Let's just talk about joints. It's probably the worst area. By the time you find out if a joint works or not, 15, 20 years later, it's not for sale anymore. So it's, it's so silly, you know, it's like, you know, like the, that Stryker knee or the medial pivot, you know, you say, oh, that, that thing launched in 2003. It looks like it really worked. Oh, you can't get it anymore. You know, they, they're on version 10.