"Gossman says he was fired after he complained about the Lahey-Medtronic link in a conversation this summer with Thomas Piemonte, the hospital’s director of cardiac catheterization at Lahey. The lawsuit claims Piemonte gets a “substantial yearly income” as a speaker for Medtronic.

Gossman in the lawsuit claims that Piemonte and the chairman of cardiology, Richard Nesto, pressured other doctors at the hospital to use more Medtronic products."

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