Medical device reps doing surgery?

Scary story from Sid Schawb:

There was a scandal a few years ago when it was made known that salespeople for orthopedic prosthetics (hips, I think it was) were actually doing major parts of some operations — fitting and inserting the joints because the surgeons weren’t familiar with them.

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