SDN Meet-Up at SIS August 18-21 2021 Washington DC

[drusso]

https://www.spineintervention.org/page/annualmeeting

If you thought that shots at Spearmint Rhino at NANS were fun, hold on tight! This is going to be "wheels-up, mask-off, party to the break of dawn" in the Nation's Capitol. The expense accounts are open and so are you! Learn from the finest and enjoy enthralling interactions with industry partners, KOL's, and specialty influencers.

Tell the spouse it's mandatory CME and remember, what happens in DC, stays in DC!

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[Ducttape]

you had me interested until: enjoy enthralling interactions with industry partners, KOL's, and specialty influencers.

 

[drusso]

you had me interested until: enjoy enthralling interactions with industry partners, KOL's, and specialty influencers.

Do you want to walk over with me to Cato Institute off K street and meet with some of their health policy analysts and lobbyists on developing strategies to reduce government interference in health care?

 

[DOctorJay]

I picked the wrong week to take vacation. should have checked this first, doh.

 

[Ducttape]

i want to spend my time with scientists and researchers in determining best treatment from a clinical standpoint, not those with any conflict of interest one way or other.

no policy analysts.

and no salesmen.

 

[drusso]

i want to spend my time with scientists and researchers in determining best treatment from a clinical standpoint, not those with any conflict of interest one way or other.

no policy analysts.

and no salesmen.

...but scientists and researchers don't ACTUALLY make policy...if you want to get anything done, you've got to go to the politicians and bean counters...

 

[Orin]

Scientists and researchers have a great deal of conflict of interest unfortunately. At least with financial ones things are clearly stated.

 

[pmrmd]

The program is enticing but D.C. is so far away from here.

 

[Ducttape]

Scientists and researchers have a great deal of conflict of interest unfortunately. At least with financial ones things are clearly stated.

maybe. but they are ethically obligated to reveal their conflict of interest. not so with salesmen and policy makers.

unfortunately those with financial interest are only interested in selling their product and are more than willing to compromise their ethics and portray misleading and sometimes false evidence to get someone to buy their product. and people - patients - get hurt.


long and short - I don't want to hang out with snake oil salesmen.

 

[lobelsteve]

maybe. but they are ethically obligated to reveal their conflict of interest. not so with salesmen and policy makers.

unfortunately those with financial interest are only interested in selling their product and are more than willing to compromise their ethics and portray misleading and sometimes false evidence to get someone to buy their product. and people - patients - get hurt.


long and short - I don't want to hang out with snake oil salesmen.

But please let drusso come to dinner just this once.

 

[SSdoc33]

2022 meeting in vancouver.

that could have some legs.....

 

[drusso]

2022 meeting in vancouver.

that could have some legs.....

I was recently up there. The place has been overrun by dirty hippies.

 

[SSdoc33]

I was recently up there. The place has been overrun by dirty hippies.

 

[Baron Samedi]

Good Guys in Georgetown is no Spearmint Rhino, but my wife swears that they have the best chicken tenders and mozzarella sticks in town.

 

[cowboydoc]

I was recently up there. The place has been overrun by dirty hippies.

Migrants from Oregon?

 

[cowboydoc]

i want to spend my time with scientists and researchers in determining best treatment from a clinical standpoint, not those with any conflict of interest one way or other.

no policy analysts.

and no salesmen.

You sound like a guy with a "real doll."

 

[Nodolor]

I was recently up there. The place has been overrun by dirty hippies.

With the Border closed? Please do tell

Vancouver is one of the great cities in Western Hemisphere

 

[drusso]

With the Border closed? Please do tell

Vancouver is one of the great cities in Western Hemisphere

Friend's house at Whistler.

 

[Nodolor]

Friend's house at Whistler.

so the border was open?

 

[drusso]

so the border was open?

so the border was open?

I see what you're saying. It was in "the before times."

 

[drusso]

Bumping this up...who's coming out for a truly #Gamechanging experience?

 

[epidural man]

Holy crap.

I'm not going to SIS - but I will be in DC by my lonesome that weekend looking for something to do. I'm down for a meet up if you guys don't kick me in the balls for all the stupid stuff I say on here all the time.

 

[drusso]

Holy crap.

I'm not going to SIS - but I will be in DC by my lonesome that weekend looking for something to do. I'm down for a meet up if you guys don't kick me in the balls for all the stupid stuff I say on here all the time.

 

[lobelsteve]

Im still in. Pfizer x2 last Christmas

 

[lobelsteve]

Landing at 6. At hotel by 7. Skipping president’s reception. I can hop on a treadmill for a 10k or meet at bar.

 

[SSdoc33]

Landing at 6. At hotel by 7. Skipping president’s reception. I can hop on a treadmill for a 10k or meet at bar.

Treadmill? You are in DC. Run the mall.

Have to go at night or better yet, forst thing in the a.m.

Summer running in dc is not easy

 

[wendalltwolf]

Treadmill? You are in DC. Run the mall.

Have to go at night or better yet, forst thing in the a.m.

Summer running in dc is not easy

It was easy for this Steve

 

[Crybaby]

Landing at 6. At hotel by 7. Skipping president’s reception. I can hop on a treadmill for a 10k or meet at bar.

Choosing between run or bar?

Run to the bar, just don't sit by me!

 

[lobelsteve]

13.1 at 9:05

meeting @drusso after showering.
Who else is here?
SDN meet and greet.

 

[drusso]

13.1 at 9:05

meeting @drusso after showering.
Who else is here?
SDN meet and greet.

Round-table Dinner Conversation Topic Tonight: "Why are @SSdoc33 and @Ducttape so stubbornly irrational?"

 

[epidural man]

13.1 at 9:05

meeting @drusso after showering.
Who else is here?
SDN meet and greet.

I'm in Rockville doing some Reserve time. Give me more time to take a train to the meetup


Just got a lecture from this guy. He was present when Kennedy got shot and was at the swearing in of Pres Johnson. He had some great stories.

A Reporter Remembers When History Tapped Him on the Shoulder

Sid Davis was a 34-year-old White House correspondent for Westinghouse Radio covering President Kennedy's fateful visit to Dallas on Nov. 21, 1963. He was in the press bus close behind Kennedy's limousine when Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed Kennedy.

m.huffpost.com

 

[SSdoc33]

Round-table Dinner Conversation Topic Tonight: "Why are @SSdoc33 and @Ducttape so stubbornly irrational?"

Thats so good company to be in!

 

[Ducttape]

Round-table Dinner Conversation Topic Tonight: "Why are @SSdoc33 and @Ducttape so stubbornly irrational?"

not irrational....

poor. and isolating away from COVID.

have fun!