You would think that a company like Guidant will start to behave by now, but if Merck is not behaving, why should they, some might ask.

Since I know someone who uses a pacemaker I got interested in the story about the recall of pacemakers and defribillators.  Since they were deliberately misleading everyone, of course, Guidant has been sued.  Then apparently the company fixed the problems and relaunched the defribillators pretending as if nothing had happened.

Yesterday Guidant agains said "that it is informing physicians about two separate failure modes, each occurring at a low rate, being monitored within the INSIGNIA and NEXUS families of Guidant implantable pacemakers."  And the company loves to play with words so instead of saying that they are recalling them, it says, "The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined this communication action to be a recall."

I just scratch my head in amazement.  Do they really think everyone else outside the company is an idiot?