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Puncture
2011 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen
Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on a case involving a nurse injured by a contaminated needle, they uncover a $130 billion medical supply monopoly that has been blocking a life-saving safety
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watched this movie a few years ago. Basically the drug companies, medical equipment manufacturers, the GPO's, Health Insurance Companies.
Sure nurses and Doctors make money but if you know anything about that job any good one is probably underpaid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puncture_(film)
Even better, for a modern day example look at the true story behind the movie Puncture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puncture_%28film%29
This sounds like what the movie puncture was about. It doesn't end well.
Still worth seeing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1582248/
The movie EDIT "puncture" (thanks diek!) is a reasonably entertaining account off the retractable needle.
US healthcare (and thus, US patients) may miss out on improved syringes, but I hope they're able to sell many of these to the developing world where needle re-use is a serious problem. Re-using needles when 10% of the population has HIV/AIDS is awful. Not just because you risk transmitting HIV to other people, but because people with HIV are not able to resist any infection you pass onto them.
I'm surprised that the practices are legal - I'd have thought that the US would have had good law to ensure free and fair competition.
I think your right PG but there are some caveats. For one i think to be able to pass it off that ideas are better then speaking (which i do agree with) you need to have some clout behind you and prove your worth and you have surely done that with respect to startups and the tech world. Honestly if anyone else did the talk you did (new ideas) and delivered it the way you did (lots of um's) i'm sure the crowed would have passed it of as a lunatic with crazy ideas who cant even speak. I sometimes empathize and if it was me that was there I would classify myself as a raving lunatic who cant speak.
I think this is again part of the subset of ideas that looking good and looking smart is actually better then being smart cause perception is everything. I personally have always look at whats inside and what the actual words mean, even when im listening to a song i listen to the words and if they effect me rather then the sexiness of the singer (like i know most of my friends do)
I remember watching a movie called puncture with chris odonnel(sp?) where he was a lawyer promoting safe needles that could save front line health workers from getting accidentally stuck and the inventor of the needle didn't know how to present infront of the investors. As a result he got nothing even though he had a great product with great potential. (the movie was based on a true story)
So i do agree with you however i think for most of us without much clout still trying to prove ourselves in the world learning to speak well is just as important as learning to write and have ideas (i hate speaking publicly but im trying). If we cant present ourselves to investors or to customers well (or intelligently) we wont even get into the door :)