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Biotech / Medical : PLC Systems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Hughes who wrote (833)	5/3/1998 8:04:00 AM
From: mantle7	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1202

I agree the stock price might go up a little for awhile, however it won't last. My basic point is that lasers are generally viewed in the medical community as useless technology always looking for the next application. Afterall, a laser is nothing other than a (very expensive) cutting tool - a hot knife if you will. The MD's and administrators will quickly cut through the laser-industry-generated hype and BS, and conclude that one can also drill holes or channels in heart tissue with much cheaper devices such as $125 disposable electrocautery wires on a $10K device. Its a case of "same old, same old". There have been a lot of ridiculous sales forecasts and scenarios posted on this thread - one guy seemed to even believe that every procedure would equate to a new laser box sale, let alone the fiber. People need to realize that these forecasts are not going to happen and why. Your point about certain MD's using the laser hype to steal back patients from others is dead on, but again not sustainable. P.S to John Martin: I would classify Laser Photonics in the extreme lower echelons of the laser food chain. However, the danger of such bottondwellers and crumbfeeders is not that they will beat PLC to the market, but that they will pollute PLC's opportunity and ruin the business for everyone.