The company's letter to doctors indicates that it is too early to predict how often the current devices would fail. The pacemakers and defibrillators are part of a large family of increasingly sophisticated implantable electronic devices that can not only keep hearts beating steadily, but can sense a potentially fatal rhythm and deliver a sudden electrical kick to restart the heart.
Boston Scientific recalls pacemakers - The Boston Globe
Maybe he just keeps getting "sudden electrical kicks." (Sudden electrical kicks? Yikes!)
I don't know what the Constitution has to say about electrically defective Vice Presidents but it might be something worth looking in to. Soon.
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