An item in your posting has caught my attention: “Understanding Barriers To Medical Device Quality” This document has been extremely forthcoming as it regards the effort the Biomedical Engineer is making to improve medical devices with the intent to improve medical service rendered to patients by those in the medical arena. By the disclosure of this document this effort by the Biomedical Engineer has practically doubled the size of the medical device industry. This effort is not only focused on innovation, it is rendering medical devices ever more sophisticated. All of this with the intent to help eliminate diseases afflicting the human being.

Unfortunately, if one were to pit this increasing Biomedical Engineer’s effort to the reciprocating efforts of the medical practitioner, the latter will be found to be practically non-existent. Instead, if statistics were to be examined, deaths from disease will be found to have doubled today compared to only a few years ago despite the more advanced tools the medical practitioner is being provided. The question is: “Why?”

The answer is simple, there is a huge difference in the intentions of the Physician and the Biomedical Engineer. The Biomedical Engineer’s intents behind his efforts is rooted on the need to come with some creation that will help eliminate disease; exactly opposite to what the medical practitioner wants. The medical practitioner has no interest to eliminate disease. His makes no effort in wanting to know the actual cure of a given disease; hence, their continual reliance on pharmaceutical drugs which they know will not effect the cure of any disease. The medical practitioner’s efforts are governed by greed.

So, irrespective of the innovations brought to medical device creation; or how much respect for quality standards may be applied to medical device creation, I have strong doubts regarding the elimination of disease.