Doctors who own stock in a device company can't request that device for patients. Use a Chief Medical Officer to validate the choice instead, and disclose everything to regulators.
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If a physician owns, has a financial ownership in a device, then they can't be the one requesting the new device. That's a compliance issue. So that's just something to bear in mind because we sometimes run up against that and it's sometimes it's out of ignorance of people just don't understand that. But we can't— compliance, the government doesn't like it if we're using a device that a doctor, if a doctor is using a device on patients that they have a financial interest in. So there has to be another mechanism by which we're validating that that's— the physicians can fairly easily find out. They can contact their local CMO and if that's something they're interested in, but that they got to be really— you got to be extremely transparent in those situations.