September 22, 2020 Judge Allison Burroughs of the District of Massachusetts denied the post-trial motion for acquittal or new trial made by the former Johnson & Johnson/Acclarent executives William Facteau and Patrick Fabian, who in 2016 were convicted on ten counts of misdemeanor adulteration and misbranding...
Updated June 3, 2017 Almost a year after my exchange with private citizen Julia Allison, she tries (and misses) the mark once again during what is likely a resurrection tour. Allison should quit trying to be famous. She should marry the mediocre partner mentioned so...
April 12, 2015 Former Johnson & Johnson Ethicon Acclarent, Inc. Executives, William M. (Bill) Factaeu & Patrick (Pat) Fabian Charged with Securities Fraud and Crimes Related to Sale and Distribution of Medical Devices April 10, 2015 DOJ Press Release (Friday afternoon) known as a data dump hoping none...
February 9, 2016 What do the 2016 Oscar's swag bag, a sex toy, and medical device fraud all have in common? Menlo Park, California's serial fraudtrepreneur entrepreneur Josh Makower. What does founder of frauds, Josh Makower, do once the Department of Justice investigates his most successfully sold medical...
Do You Think Anyone Knows? The Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Industries are notorious for having meetings about having meetings. And prior to that, we had conference calls about conference calls which reference the meetings about having meetings. And, don’t get me started on the number of...
Packing tips below: In my former life as a surgical device rep more often than not I wore scrubs to work and suits were reserved for hospital CEO meetings, corporate ride-alongs (this sounds way more fun than it is, it's just someone bored in the home...
COCKtail Parties* National Sales Meetings (NSM) are the equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar Night for those in the startup Medical Device Industry (only far less fashionable and much more ego). The NSM are usually held at the beginning of the year (just like Hollywood), in a warm...
September 18, 2015 UPDATED: Venture Captial Ally Bridge Group founded by Frank Yu funds the pathologically unethical startup NxThera If you're a patient, doctor or hospital a company's ethics should matter especially if they're selling something going into your body or a patient's body and to avoid...
June 29, 2015 Defend Your Research: What makes a team smarter? More women There’s little correlation between a group’s collective intelligence and the IQs of its individual members. But if a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises. You realize you’re saying that groups of women are...
June 18, 2015 [caption id="attachment_12252" align="alignnone" width="780"] Managed by Q co-founders Saman Rahmanian (left) and Dan Teran[/caption] Finally! This site writes a lot about startups behaving badly (The Sociopathic Business Model™) but here's one that's doing it right. Managed by "Q" co-founders Saman Rahmanian and Dan Teran get...