That is the response of a too-powerful agency, that has been too powerful for so long that dismissal of a well-considered request for agency action from a real patient advocacy organization representing thousands of real patients in real trouble, can be made so casually.

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Dr Legrand says that one patient, who had experienced a decade of trouble with his implant, had it fixed in a couple of days using the evolutionary method.

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Trouble is, this falls in the "operation was a success, but the patient died" category.

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That got them in trouble when medical experts pointed out the two diseases almost never occur in the same patient.

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