Public Profile
Meridian Surgical Technologies is a medical-device manufacturer based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, with product lines in orthopedic implants, surgical staplers and robotic surgery. Founded in 1987 as a maker of hip and knee prostheses, the company entered robotics in 2019 with the Halsted, a four-armed robotic surgical system named for William Stewart Halsted, the nineteenth-century surgeon credited with introducing the rubber glove and the surgical residency. The Halsted is leased to hospitals at a typical annual cost of $2.4 million and has, by the company’s count, participated in more than four hundred thousand procedures. Meridian describes it in its literature as “a second pair of hands that does not get tired, does not get distracted and does not have an afternoon.”
The company’s Patella Implant Division held preferred-vendor agreements with several New York orthopedic practices until January 2026, when it discontinued its New York metropolitan sales territory following the collapse in knee-reconstruction volume that accompanied the death of John Reese. The division’s then vice president of regional sales, Marcus Enright, said at the time that the company had “modeled for normal criminal activity” and not for Mr. Reese’s retirement. Mr. Enright now oversees the company’s robotics accounts in the western United States.
In October 2026 a Halsted system at Codornices Medical Center in Berkeley, Calif., became the first to be dismissed from a procedure in progress, when the operating surgeon, Dr. Everett Lindqvist, a former Meridian regional proctor, had it undocked and parked against the wall. The company said the system had performed as designed and distinguished, for reporting purposes, between a malfunction and a dismissal. It billed the hospital for the full session.
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- New York City Knee Surgeons Report Catastrophic Revenue Collapse Following Death of John Reese — discontinued the Patella Implant Division’s New York territory
- Surgeon Dismisses Robot Midway Through Operation, Vowing to Finish With ‘Pure Artisanal Thinking’ — manufacturer of the Halsted; said the system “was dismissed,” not malfunctioning
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- Surgeon Dismisses Robot Midway Through Operation, Vowing to Finish With 'Pure Artisanal Thinking' — The remaining 112 minutes were narrated aloud by Dr. Lindqvist, including several decisions he described as 'not strictly necessary, but mine.'