Friday, December 7, 2007

A Doctor vs Cleveland Clinic

Filed under: Society

Today's Wal Street Journal has an article about a dispute between Cleveland Clinic and one of its former department chairs, Dr. Jay Yadav, who was fired for alleged conflict of interest involving "financial stakes in two companies whose experimental products were tested on clinic patients." (We have reported about Dr. Yadav in an earlier post about CardioMems' implantable device for the monitoring of blood pressure inside aortic aneurysms. He is a chief executive of Cardiomems, an Atlanta company.)

In a lawsuit, filed in an Ohio court against Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Yadav claims that financial conflicts of interest are pervasive among Cleveland Clinic physicians, citing hospital's chief executive Dr. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, an inventor of Cosgrove-Edwards ring, and Dr. Isador Lieberman, an orthopedic surgeon with ties to Kyphon Inc.

WSJ: Cleveland Clinic Dispute Intensifies ...

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