SCANDALS, recalls, stingy customers, anxious regulators-any one of these would traumatise a chief executive. America's industry for medical devices is suffering from all of them.

美国医疗设备产业正在遭受着这样的折磨，陷入丑闻，召回产品，消费者挑剔，调控者焦虑，这其中的任何一个都足以让企业老总们心惊肉跳。

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Plank chuckles as he recalls one chief executive who is considering such a deal, even though it might make the company's management redundant.

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Richard recalls just one time--25 years ago--when they squabbled over an executive appointment, and theirlate father, Paul, had to mediate.

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