"Jack Burks, MD, the National MS Society medical chief who participated in the ISET panel discussion, acknowledged that the divide was essentially "a turf war" between specialties.

Speaking with tongue partially in cheek, he said neurologists viewed the interventionalists as "cowboys" who "overstate the positive value" of vascular treatments in an effort to extract money from desperate patients. To neurologists, he added, "commercial interests are overriding scientific inquiry."

The attitude in the other direction, Burks said, was that neurologists are merely concerned about losing their own lucrative income, and that they are pawns of pharmaceutical companies whose product sales would plummet if the surgical therapy takes hold."

Quoted from:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AdditionalMeetings/24389

Dr. Jack Burks - New Era of MS Treatment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhjOgmJzOuM