Re: GE 4D Ultrasound and Television AD - Effect on Patients!
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Jul 29 14:23:41 2002
Terry -
you are anything but noisy *smile*
keep on keepin on
art
At Mon, 29 Jul 2002, DuBose, Terry wrote:
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>Dr. Fougner, are you implying that I am making too much noise, or that we
>need to continue? ;-)
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>Peace, Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS
>Assistant Professor & Director, Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
>University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP
>4301 West Markham St. Mail Slot #563
>Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205 USA
>501-686-6510
>http://www.io.com/~dubose/
>http://www.uams.edu/CHRP/dmshome.htm
>http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: evsono@pipeline.com [mailto:evsono@pipeline.com]
>Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 10:10 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
>Subject: Re: GE 4D Ultrasound and Television AD - Effect on Patients!
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>Terry -
>
>the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
>
>art
>
>At Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Terry J DuBose wrote:
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>>Dr. Platt, this is a good first step, and I thank GE for making it.
>>However, many will be waiting to see if GE "drops the other shoe" and
>>instructs GE Medical Systems to only sell ultrasound instrumentation to
>>individuals who have documented education (accredited, not just "3 week
>>wonders") and skills in sonography... and who indicate that they will use
>>it in accordance within the FDA's policies.
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>>Thanks to the AIUM for their work on this problem, but this is only the
>>first step, I fear it isn't over.
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>>--
>>Terry J DuBose, M.S., RDMS
>>Little Rock, Arkansas USA
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>>On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 00:40:42 EDT LDPLATT@aol.com writes:
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>>In a message dated 7/27/2002 4:59:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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>>evsono@pipeline.com writes:
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>>incidentally - is it me or has GE pulled this ad?
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>>In response to this question GE has been most responsive to the AIUM's
>>input and concerns.They have pulled the ad to rewrite it and add a
>>disclaimer re it's use for clinical indications only.Dr Kurtz who is out
>>of town at present will shortly post some information re all the activity
>>the AIUM has been involved in with GE and the FDA.I am sure you all would
>> be pleased with the impact we have had with this.GE has been
>>impressive in their response and how they quickly handled this situation
>>that appearently came from "ccorporate GE" and not Medical Sysytems.They
>>have also pulled all places from their web site that are using the 3D and
>>4D only for "entertainment". Please look for Dr Kurtz s' official
>>statement from the AIUM .
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>>Dr. Platt, this is a good first step, and I thank GE for making it. nbsp;
>>However, many will be waiting to see if GE "drops the other shoe" and
>instructs
>>GE Medical Systems to only sell ultrasound instrumentation to individuals
>who
>>have documented education (accredited, not just "3 week wonders") an
>>skills in sonography... and who indicate that they will use it in
>accordance
>>within the FDA's policies.
>>
>>Thanks to the AIUM for their work on this problem, but this is only the
>>first step, I fear it isn't over.
>>
>>Terry J DuBose, M.S., RDMS
>>Little Rock, Arkansas USA
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>> TYPE="CITE">incidentally - is it me or has GE pulled this
>> ad?In response to this question GE has been most
>> responsive to the AIUM's input and concerns.They have pulled the ad to
>rewrite
>> it and add a disclaimer re it's use for clinical indications only Dr
>> Kurtz who is out of town at present will shortly post some information r
>all
>> the activity the AIUM has been involved in with GE and the FDA.I am sure
>you
>> all would be pleased with the impact we have had with this.GE has
>> been impressive in their response and how they quickly handled
>> this situation that appearently came from "ccorporate GE" and not Medica
>> Sysytems.They have also pulled all places from their web site that are
>using
>> the 3D and 4D only for "entertainment". Please look for Dr Kurtz
>> s' official statement from the AIUM
>> . nbsp;
>> Larry Platt ---
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>art fougner, md
>ich bin ein New Yorker
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art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
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