{"id":5251,"date":"2010-12-06T15:48:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:41","slug":"senate-report-exposes-abbotts-ties-to-mark-midei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/12\/06\/senate-report-exposes-abbotts-ties-to-mark-midei\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Report Exposes Abbott&#8217;s Ties to Mark Midei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.senate.gov\/newsroom\/chairman\/download\/?id=51c772ba-9b32-4f81-8f8e-688f22415617\">A U.S. Senate report<\/a> exposes new information about the relationship between Abbott Laboratories and Mark Midei, the interventional cardiologist who has been accused of implanting hundreds of unnecessary stents at St. Joseph Medical Center in Maryland. News stories on the report appear in today\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/health\/bs-md-senate-stent-report-20101205,0,2116790.story\">Baltimore Sun<\/a>,<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/06\/health\/06stent.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=stents&amp;st=cse\"> <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/06\/health\/06stent.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=stents&amp;st=cse\">New York Times<\/a>, <\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704493004576001582557244592.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While still working at St. Joseph Medical Center, Midei was prized by Abbott as a high-volume operator and received congratulations from the company for implanting 30 stents in one day. The company paid for parties at Midei&#8217;s house, including\u00a0$2,159 \u00a0for a barbecue that included a\u00a0whole smoked pig. After leaving St. Joseph, Midei worked for a time as a paid consultant for Abbott, but cut short a trip in Asia when his case became well known after the publication of stories in the <em>Sun<\/em>.\u00a0Midei then worked in Saudi Arabia\u00a0at the Prince Salman Heart Center, but that job was also discontinued due to the bad publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Senate report exposes new information about the relationship between Abbott Laboratories and Mark Midei, the interventional cardiologist who has been accused of implanting hundreds of unnecessary stents at St. Joseph Medical Center in Maryland. News stories on the report appear in today\u2019s\u00a0Baltimore Sun, New York Times, and\u00a0Wall Street Journal. While still working at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[599,598,600,601],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interventional-cardiology","tag-abbott","tag-mark-midei","tag-st-joseph-medical-center","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}