Pain Super-Bowl of Debates: January 10, 2024!

[drusso]

Prepare for hard-hitting, no-punches-pulled, intellectually rigorous, plain-speaking truth about the future of our specialty.

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[BobBarker]

Too funny. How many facet fusions has Tim done? Probably 0.

 

[nvrsumr]

So many people i would walk right past without a glance
What is aspn. Don’t care

 

[MitchLevi]

Let me guess...

For painful diabetic neuropathy, Pope is against 10kHz and instead prefers an Abbott device?

 

[CleanUp]

The PainTeq debate is pro vs pro 😅

 

[Agast]

How does this work, this is the playoffs and then it’s down to facet joint fusion vs early intracept or whomever paid the most?

And the halftime show is Tim Deer in heels?

 

[BobBarker]

@MitchLevi please tell me that is over 5 years.

 

[MitchLevi]

@MitchLevi please tell me that is over 5 years.

CMS Open Payments data is 2016 until now

 

[Ducttape]

you can search yearly if you like.
here is his 2022 data:

edit: it will also show you who has paid him and what he was paid for and the dates of the events.

Abbott is the biggest, followed by Aurora Spine then Saluda.

edit 2 - for what its worth, the highest guys are Deer and Pope then Chakravarthy at 285. rest are less than 200K

 

[lobelsteve]

Medicine has fallen to the level of Instagram and Youtube influencers.
Fight you all for a new Stanley.

 

[Ducttape]

oh and just in comparison, my data:

 

[Espn123]

oh and just in comparison, my data:



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Very admirable

 

[Agast]

oh and just in comparison, my data:



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Now you’re just being stingy and denying your staff fancy cookies

 

[Ferrismonk]

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