dumaflotchie

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 12:00 PM

Re: A glimpse into MAKO's Total Knee research

I am not going to let you destroy the MAKO board the way you did NPI.

This guy is malignant Tinker......he doesn't care about anything but shutting down rationale thought.....attacking nonliberals (AKA the IRS).

Ignore him as [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 8:35 AM

Re: A glimpse into MAKO's Total Knee research

Thanks Dawg.

It is all about the "platform"........whether partials, totals, hips or knees.......it's the platform.

At least that seems to be their strategic plan......one that I certainly agree with as it seems to make [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 1:03 PM

Re: Costs of Joint Replacement

If there is that difference in costs, why not a difference in prices?

Once you better understand WHY a hospital has certain charge structures, you will understand why it is significant.

Maybe your "cost" and [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 12:42 PM

Re: Costs of Joint Replacement

Actually, the "cost" varied *far* less widely. It was the "price" in which there was the biggest discrepancy.

I have never suggested that there isn't something interesting here. Just that a 2 to 1 difference isn't [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 10:24 PM

Re: Costs of Joint Replacement

Nonsense. You merely rambled on and on and proved nothing that the article didn't address. You seem to discount that even your 1st and 3rd quartile were 100% difference in cost???

Like that is no big deal??

You missed the point [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 7:52 PM

Re: Costs of Joint Replacement

The charges (list price) ranged from $5,300 to $223,400 ... which is, indeed, quite a span.

So how have you answered your original question which was:

While interesting, I suspect that really distorts the picture for what [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 7:23 PM

Re: Costs of Joint Replacement

I'd like to see both sides of this coin before I thought I had any idea of what it meant.

Great.....get back to us on your research and explain why hospitals charge $200,000 for a joint replacement when they get less than that from [more]

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dumaflotchie posted to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 3:19 PM

Costs of Joint Replacement

There are vast disparities nationally. The average charges for joint replacement range from about $5,300 at an Ada, Okla., hospital to $223,000 in Monterey Park, Calif.

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 6:00 PM

Re: One fee ($25k). Fly you from anywhere for Ma

Nationally, I believe the average cost for joint replacement is between $30,000 to 40,000.

He seems to be disingenuous in his marketing campaign.......a point Gator was insinuating.

One point we made long ago is that partial joint [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 5:44 PM

Re: One fee ($25k). Fly you from anywhere for Ma

I am sure a funnier quip about that could be constructed.

OK...I'll take a crack at this one.......he's been smoking one too many "joints".

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 9:34 PM

Re: Flyonthewall: PiperJaffrey: Settlement cost

Fascinating how FAST Stanmore went down......suit was just filed for Pete sake.

Recall this post regarding Stanmore patents:

http://boards.fool.com/30534380.aspx

Perhaps [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the Exelixis, Inc. board. 1:16 PM

Re: Pre-clinical data presented at AACR meeting

What it show is, not only does the drug produce clinical results, that there is also actual medical underlying evidence to explain the results, going that much further to conclude the drugs effects are not a fluke.

Very true Tinker, [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 12:42 PM

Re: Mizuho Securities switches gears, Buy w/ PT $14

Dawg:

I was going to try to scoop you on this little news snippet but I see I am 3 hours late ;)

Keep up the great work!!

Much appreciated.

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 8:15 PM

Re: Mako Secures Injunction vs Blue Belt

Nice!!

Quick and relatively inexpensive as far as litigation goes.

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 5:28 PM

Re: Study: Adductor Canal Block for Makoplasty

And they always pass gas! :)

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dumaflotchie replied to the Exelixis, Inc. board. 8:12 PM

Re: Blast from Past

Ah, bringing back old memories of the symphony deal.

Yep.....most of the early investors in EXEL believed this company was going to churn out numerous blockbuster drugs........not realizing that this would be a HUGE cash [more]

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dumaflotchie posted to the Exelixis, Inc. board. 3:06 PM

Blast from Past

Could it be that EXEL was "played" on abandoning viable drugs due to "toxicity" that for some reason no longer prohibits these same drugs from becoming blockbusters????

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 2:45 PM

Re: Med Device Daily Interview of MAKO execs at

When the study was initiated two or three years ago they were asked why Scotland and they gave the very same answer.

Must have missed that.

One thing that they have pulled off is a fairly rapid entry into the study......over [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 1:36 PM

Re: Med Device Daily Interview of MAKO execs at AAOS

A few points that were clarified in this article:

One of the key aspects of the study is that it is a blinded randomized controlled trial, which is the highest level of evidence that one can get. Therefore, any bias is [more]

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dumaflotchie replied to the MAKO Surgical Corp. board. 9:21 AM

Re: MAKO 3/21 Scotland Data released

The primary endpoint of the clinical study is to validate the intra-operative implant alignment values recorded by the RIO system and to compare the accuracy of this implant positioning using robotic arm assistance with that achieved using [more]