Getty-Up Sticks On Sale (Black Friday Special)

Black Friday Sale: Getty-Up Stick Now Just $48 (Free Shipping to US)

The fascinating and innovative personal mobility aid known as the Getty-Up Stick (aka: "Apollo Cane) is now on-sale at EGAN Medical Equipment. The dual-handled cane with a built-in LED flashlight is now just $48.00 (regular price = $69.95), and ships free to the continental United States!

Black Friday Sale: Big Savings on Getty-Up Stick / Apollo Cane at EGAN Medical

The Getty-Up Stick / Apollo Cane a popular mobility device that can be described as a dual-handled walking cane with built-in LED flashlight has seen its price substantially reduced in a Black Friday special available now until further notice.

To learn more about this incredible personal mobility aid, please visit the official blog at PamelaEgan.com.

EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply Launches New Blog

EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply Launches New Blog

EGAN Medical Equipment and Supply has launched a brand-new blog in addition to the numerous blogs to which the SE Louisiana and Coastal Mississippi-based online medical equipment and supply dealer has published news and product-related updates in recent years.

The blog is hosted by EGAN Medical, which marks a notable breach in tradition as EGAN has long published blogs to a variety of sites and blogging platforms, however the common theme between the various blogs to which EGAN has published over the course of the company's post-brick-and-mortar existence is that they've all involved websites owned or controlled by a company other than EGAN Medical Equipment itself.

The company is billing the new blog as "official", a term that has been loosely thrown around from time-to-time in the other blogs bearing the EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply name or some variation thereof.

Most likely, the new blog, which can be found at http://eganmedicalequipment(dot)com/, will be used for official company news and announcements while the the others such as this blog, the EGAN Wordpress blog and the Egan Tumblr blog will be used for lighthearted applications such as exclusive coupons, deals and news not necessarily directly related to the company.

Telemergency Manufacturer Vanishes Mysteriously

Telemergency Manufacturer Disappears Without a Trace

The maker of the wildly popular EGAN Medical product Telemergency 750C Emergency Alert System has vanished without a trace, and nobody seems to have any knowledge of their whereabouts or the reason they have apparently gone out of business. 

In fact, it's the truly bizarre circumstances surrounding this company's disappearance that make this case so interesting and so intriguing as to dedicate precious time that could be spend in hundreds of more productive ways to sit down and blog about it.

The owner of the company is/was a man named Elliot Baum. It's possible that Mr. Baum died, and as a result Telemergency ceased to exist. However, going strictly off of the volume of sales that EGAN Medical Equipment did involving Telemergency 700 and 700C units during the 2012 calendar year, it does not appear that the firm was experiencing any financial difficulties. The product was in high-demand, and made up a considerable percentage of our sales for the 2012 calendar year.

The most recent obituary I was able to find for an Elliot Baum was dated 2007, and the company appeared to be showing indications of life and a desire for growth (based on various media reports) as recently as mid-2012. Therefore, it is doubtful that the Elliot Baum who died in 2007 is the same man listed as CEO of Telemergency Systems, and still listed as the registrant of both domain names associated with the company (telemergency300.com and telemergencysystems.com). All phone numbers associated with both Telemergency as well as a separate corporation also listing Mr. Baum as CEO are now listed as non-working numbers.

While the homepage of Telemergency300 still resolves, the links no longer work, leading to 404 error pages instead, and no means of contact, sales or ordering are accessible via the lone page still resolving when entered into the URL bar.

TelemergencySystems.com resolves to a Network Solutions administrative control panel. 

shop or to cease to exist as a business entity. Neither we nor any of the half-dozen or so other retailers whom have contacted us seeking the same information received so much as a phone call or email from Telemergency notifying us of an intention to cease all business operations as of a specific (or even a tentative) date. We were given no time to prepare for this, and in most cases there were issues with orders as a result (customers ordering an item they believe to merely be on backorder but which is actually no longer available anywhere except from those individuals selling them used on eBay --- and even they are few and far between.Furthermore, the company issued no notice whatsoever of any plan to close up

The manner in which Telemegency just disappeared is eerily reminiscent of a novel I once read (and the far more recent motion picture version). The book and movie: Atlas Shrugged.

If in fact the motive underlying Telemergency's sudden disappearance from the marketplace did constitute and act of one of the men who makes the world go-round 'going John Galt', then at the very least Mr. Baum could have seen to it that the question of "Who is John Galt?" could have (and should have) been published at the former-company's web domains in place of a once-functional website index page and a NetSol admin page.

I can respect such a motive for the closing down of a company, as well as doing so in such a peculiar manner; as the amount of money being confiscated from those remaining few who still produce it constitutes insufficient motivation to invest the time, effort and energy into performing all of the hard work that goes along with the pursuit of what was once known as "The American Dream".

This author admittedly feels a bit like the character of Dagny Taggart from the novel when she wonders aloud why so many great men seem to be disappearing without a trace. That said, this author's own personal preference would have been to go out in more the style of Ellis Wyatt's character upon his exit from the private sector still trading in U.S. currency. For anyone unfamiliar with the story, read it or buy the audio book and either read or hear the story for yourselves. I won't give any more detail as I wouldn't want to deprive anyone of the most enlightening literary experience in the history of earth.

In any case, Telemergency is no longer conducting business, so needless to say the product will no longer be available at EGAN Medical. Egan Medical will however allow the page to remain online (orders will not be processed if attempted) in the event we find a suitable replacement, at which point we will either redirect the Telemergency Emergency Alert System page to the replacement product, or at the very least link to it from the page.

EGAN Medical is deeply saddened and disappointed to learn of this development, and will be working diligently in the meantime to find a suitable replacement product for our valued customers which hopefully will serve all the needs of the Telemergency without the recurring fees associated with most similar products.

If anyone reading this knows any details regarding the sudden disappearance of Mr. Elliot Baum and/or his companies and products, please use the comment form below and we will contact you at the email address entered into the comment form for more details.

The Telemergency 700 and 750C are what's known as "Emergency Alert Systems". The products consisted of a phone-type device that was programmable with custom phone numbers which allowed elderly, frail and disabled persons to place a phone call to the person of their choosing with the simple push of a button. The device also included a pendant worn around the neck which when activated by either the push of a button or the breaking of the chord (designed to detach during a fall) would automatically notify authorities of the accident and send for help while the individual may not be in a position to move about physically.

EGAN Medical Daily Online Newspaper Debutes

Censored Review From Egan Medical Customer "Martha H"

Since Yelp for whatever reason decided to censor the one and only review of Egan Medical appearing on this apparently dormant consumer review website, we decided in the name of transparency and free speech to publish it here, on the Egan Medical blog.

While we do know with certainty that no one employed by or in any way affiliated with Egan Medial in any way encouraged Ms. H to review us on Yelp, much less write such a glowing review that casts us in an extremely positive light, we cannot state with certainty that some unrelated individual with no ties to our company may have for reasons unknown to us done something to entice her into issuing her statements. Granted, this person would have no apparent incentive for doing so, but that is apparently of little interest to the censors at Yelp who decide which companies can receive favorable reviews and which cannot.

Anyway, without further adieu, here is the review that aroused so much controversy:

Author: Martha H. from Folsom, LA

Review of Egan Medical Supply:

• Martha H.

Folsom, LA

5/31/2012

"I have a physically disabled child and have found the incontinence and medical equipment obtained from Egan Medical Equipment & Supply to be of the highest quality and very affordable.  Of special note is the reusable bed pads that we have found to last through several years of use and washing.  Another invaluable product is the ReadyBath Basics disposable cleansing cloths that we use when full bathing is not feasible."

So, the above is the controversial review Yelp deemed too outrageous for public consumption, opting to censor the review and shield it from the public's eyes.

Is Martha really a covert plant whose only goal is to mislead consumers into thinking Egan Medical is a company that provides quality products at affordable prices to go along with unmatched customer service? Or did she really mean what she wrote in the unsolicited review? That's for you to decide...

Is Yelp Censoring Natural, Unsolicited Reviews?

Unfortunate as it may be, and for reasons that remain unclear as of this time, the consumer review website Yelp appears to be censoring natural, unsolicited reviews for which no incentive was provided by the company being reviewed, nor was the consumer asked by the company to write the review.

During a routine visit to monitor what our customers are saying about us, an Egan Medical team member observed that a review written by a customer named "Martha H" from Folsom, LA, was removed from Egan Medical's review page and relegated to an obscure section of the Yelp website called "Filtered Reviews". This is unfortunate, as each and every Egan Medical employee was personally asked about the review or if they had any knowledge of its creation. Not one Egan employee knows who Martha H is, nor can anyone remember her coming into the store. She was certainly not asked by any Egan Medical employee to write her flattering review, but apparently thought enough of our products, prices and world-class service to take time out of her day to write an objective review of her experience with our company.

Martha had apparently purchased a variety of products from Egan, including waterproof reusable bed pads (Invacare Supply Group brand, 24" x 34" size) and Medline's ReadyBath Basics complete, pre-moistened sponge bath system. The lady also wrote about purchasing other unspecified incontinence supplies which also met or exceeded her expectations for quality and price. No one currently employed by Egan Medical remembers the lady, although several customers have made purchases which included both of the aforementioned products.

Unfortunately, Yelp apparently has employees who solicit bribes from companies in exchange for hiding favorable reviews of their competitors, as there is simply no other explanation for how a review that was genuinely written without the knowledge or consent of anyone employed by or in any way representative of Egan Medical could be cast aside in such a way so as to imply that Egan Medical engaged in forbidden tactics, bribes and/or dirty tricks in exchange for a favorable review. As absurd as this may seem to our customers, it is with regret that we must acknowledge that Yelp actually went to this great an extent to smear and besmirch the reputation of a company whose customers would gladly vouch for the unbeatable service provided were they to be contacted anonymously and asked about their experience.

While Egan Medical continues to move closer to the company's goal of one day becoming the world leader in online medical equipment, supplies and supplements; the reality of the situation is that we're still a very small company which treats customers the way they should be treated --- with respect, dignity, a touch of personal service and a commitment toward ensuring that each and every customer is satisfied at the end of the day with his or her experience with our organization.

The fact that our only Yelp review was very positive speaks volumes about our company. That Yelp deemed it appropriate to remove it and imply without any factual basis whatsoever that Egan Medical somehow facilitated the placement of a fake review speaks volumes about the type of people it (Yelp) hires, and the criminally reckless and irresponsible lengths they will go to in order to earn an extra few dollars from overzealous companies hell-bent on preventing competitors' customers from writing honest, sincere and unsolicited reviews about a local retailer which provided them with high-quality products at a very affordable price.

That Egan Medical has only been reviewed once on Yelp is perhaps an even stronger indicator of just how irrelevant Yelp is as a viable means for consumers to access information about the credibility and trustworthiness of a given company.

If Egan's one customer review was so easily removed by a Yelp employee almost certainly on the payroll of a competing medical equipment company, it tells this author that the entire site is a pool of digital piranhas with no regard for truth, accuracy or fairness.

Egan Medical strongly discourages our customers from using Yelp in any capacity --- whether it be for the purpose of reviewing an unrelated company or our own business. That goes regardless of whether the review would cast us in a favorable or unflattering light (as remarkably unlikely as the latter scenario is, it's still worth including for the sake of completeness).

We at Egan Medical do not care what Yelp thinks about our customers or what they have to say about our products and our service, and we would encourage all customers who feel compelled to review us to do so at EganMedical.com. For customers who would rather review us on an objective third-party site, we strongly encourage these individuals to do so at any 3rd party review site other than Yelp. We don't care which, so long as our customers are not contributing to the corruption and slander by implication that defines the cesspool that is Yelp.

For what it's worth, as of the time of this writing Egan Medical has never received a single complaint from a customer who reviewed us online. We have observed countless positive reviews posted at any number of different sites by customers to whom we are extremely grateful but whom we did not in any way incentivize or encourage to review us.

If Yelp cares one lick about its credibility, it will issue a written apology to Egan Medical and to Martha H, and will cease and desist from suggesting that Ms. H's flattering review was in any way planned, coordinated, paid for or in any other way manipulated by Egan Medical or any of its employees.

What Makes Egan Medical Equipment Superior to the Competition?

Egan Medical Equipment: We Don't Just Claim to Be the Best

Egan Medical strives to offer only the very best products at the very best prices. Our experienced staff of healthcare professionals with specialties ranging from registered nurses, to physical, occupational and respiratory therapists to certified diabetes educators to doctors and nurse practitioners help determine which brands and which products we carry based on quality and cost-effectiveness.


At Egan, our customers are never greeted by an automated machine. Someone knowledgeable about our products, policies and procedures answers and will always answer every single call without exception. Customers will not be subjected to waiting on hold for extended periods of time, and the overwhelming majority of calls get through directly on the first try. If you happen to call when all lines are busy, one of our representatives will call you back the moment a line opens up. We will NEVER force our customers to go through people who don't know what's going on and aren't authorized to make a decision even if they were knowledgeable when you call Egan with questions or for assistance.


Add to all of that the fact that our prices are among the most competitive in the industry and its easy to see why Egan Medical has become one of America's leading online retailers of home medical equipment products, medical supplies, supports, braces and nutritional supplements in just 14 months since the online division was launched (the main company has been in existence since 1988).


We genuinely are better than the competition in every way, shape, manner and form, and we'd like for you to give us an opportunity to prove it. We think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the extent to which you'll feel like you've stepped into a time machine and went back to the days when people were courteous and businesses treated their customers with utmost respect.


We're a family business, and we always have been and always will be. We are your neighbors, your friends, your family. We're regular people, and we just happen to know an awful lot about healthcare and medical equipment. Our products are as 21st century as it gets, but our customer service has remained in an era when people answered phones and customers were always right. As long as I run this company, and hopefully long after I'm gone, that is one thing that's not going to change.


Peter Egan Jr.
Egan Medical Executive Director


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Egan Medical Reaches Out to Local Media Online

We here at Egan Medical were extremely disappointed, disgusted and dismayed to learn of the Times Picayune's asinine decision to reduce publishing from seven to three days per week. While we do not anticipate the companies that will take over what once was America's best newspaper (in terms of the quality of the journalism itself) will succeed beyond three or four months before the new model implodes, we are experimenting with new features debuted on the paper's affiliate website to see if we can help prevent the seemingly inevitable bankruptcy of the paper that Egan's Executive Director has read every morning of his life since age four.

One interesting feature to recently debut on the site is a Classifieds section that enables people and businesses to create classifieds using an HTML editor as well as the ability to create classified listings of lengths far in excess of those sized for print.

Egan has created three such listings as an experimental trial. Depending upon how things go with these three listings, the company may or may not decide to invest into the program, with the goal of creating pages for some or all of Egan Medical's wide selection of medical equipment, medical supplies, orthopedic supports & braces, nutritional supplements and other healthcare-related products.

Only time will tell. One component of the classifieds system that we here at Egan are less-than-thrilled about is the 30-day nature of the ad. Why set a time limit? If the user is going to go through the trouble associated with creating a good listing, then why not allow the page created by the user to remain online until the item has been sold?

Sure, it can be removed from the top of the listings page as it ages, but leaving it online would do more justice to the person who took the time to create free content for the online division of the Picayune.

As per Egan Medical's experiment, the company's marketing leadership has decided to create listings for three of Egan's more popular items, and three which the competition (to refer to them as such is flattery beyond what is merited, but out of civility we'll overstate their significance as such) is completely and utterly unable to compete with Egan's prices dollar-for-dollar for the same exact items.


The products selected for the trial are as follows:

Extended Wiper for Obese People

1. Cervical Traction Device: Select Brand Over-Door Style Cervical Traction Set is a product intended to help people with neck injuries straighten out the spinal alignment near the neck, helping to reduce pain and ideally also help with the healing process of the injury itself.
   
2. Extended-Reach Toilet Wiping Aide: The Long Reach Comfort Wipe is arguable the most high-quality AND cost-effective bathroom/wiping aide available on the medical supply market today. At just $13.50, it is priced at about 1/3 of what Egan's competitors charge for the same product, and features a comfortable, ergonomic design that extends reach by nearly 16 inches, helping the obese, disabled and those with dexterity issues achieve the same degree of cleanliness most everyone else takes for granted.
   
3. Support Harness for Pregnant Women: The Prenatal Cradle is easily among the most popular of all of Egan Medical's numerous, high-quality maternity support products. It comes is a total of nine different sizes, with at least one that's perfect for virtually every woman of every shape and size. Out of thousands of these items sold over the years, Egan has yet to receive one single customer complaint about the quality of the product (and we never receive complaints about the quality of our service).

If the aforementioned product listings at the Times Picayune's new online classified site produce any legitimate leads from real customers and not from the advertisers hoping to convince the merchants that their site is referring customers, Egan may take a good, hard look at making this a staple of the company's local outreach efforts.

Egan already offers free local delivery to residents of Southeast Louisiana and Hancock and Harrison Counties along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Despite the fact that the organization has promoted the free shipping program in a number of different media, as well as via a large banner affixed to the front of the storefront itself, most local customers appear to prefer to pay for shipping fees themselves, for reasons known only to themselves.

In any case, customers seeking to find an exclusive deal not found on at EganMedical.com, this blog or any of Egan's numerous social presences might want to take a look at the online affiliate website of the Times Picayune and see what specials are available from Louisiana's leading online provider of medical supplies and equipment - and one of America's fastest-growing medical equipment/supply firms - Egan Medical, the little store on Tyler Street in Covington with the blue banner stretching across the length of the building.

NOTE:  While Egan Medical is based in Covington, Louisiana, the company does business primarily outside the state, with customers placing their orders online from across the USA, Canada, Ireland and the UK.

Pulse Oximeters On Sale at Egan Medical Equipment - 50% Off MSRP!

Due to popular demand and a flurry of requests from customers, patients and healthcare professionals, Egan Medical has decided to bring back it's special 50% off sale on MedSource brand Fingertip Pulse Oximeters.

A pulse oximeter is a medical device used by end-users, doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals for the purpose of measuring pulse (heart rate), and blood-oxygen saturation.

The MedSource brand of finger pulse oximeter is known as a high-quality, reputable product that is backed by a one-year warranty. While the MedSource brand of fingertip pulse ox is already among the more cost-effective on the market, however at $29.95 makes this offer practically unbeatable in terms of the quality and the value for the price. There really is no better bang-for-your-buck in the world of professional and consumer monitoring equipment, particularly as it pertains to high-quality pulse oximeters, which often cost as much as $85-$100 or more.

The standard price for the MedSource Fingertip Pulse Oximeter is $59.95, and Egan Medical's standard price is $47.50. This offer ends at the end of April 2012, so be sure to take advantage of this limited time offer while it's still available.

Egan Medical also offers an unusually low price on the American Bantex brand of pulse ox. Egan's price for this item is just $69.95, which is $30-$50 less than many of Egan's local brick-and-mortar competitors' prices for the very same product.

Welcome to the Egan Medical Equipment Blogspot Log

Welcome to the Egan Medical Equipment and Supply Blogger Blog!

In case you're wondering, this is an official blog of Egan Medical Equipment and Supply. You did read that correctly. This is AN official blog of Egan Medical, not necessarily THE official blog of Egan Medical, although for the time being, this will be one of the places we post product updates, deals, coupons, special discounts, news about the company and any relevant news or updates about the medical equipment/supply industry in general.

We will not necessarily post the same information to each blog, nor will each be utilized for the same purposes. We may in the future create product and/or category-specific blogs so that customers who are only interested in a particular product line will have a blog entirely devoted to that subject to go to in order to look for deals or research product information.

We do recognize that most companies have a single blog that serves as THE official blog of that particular company. Well, here at Egan, we intend to do things our own way, and that entails publishing official material on behalf of the company to a number of different blogs and sites, including our primary blog (yet to be created), which will be eventually found at http://blog (dot) EganMedical (dot) com. Once created, the one located on a subdomain of EganMedical.com will be our most formal weblog. That said, there is an appropriate time and place for formality, and then there is also an appropriate time and place for a more casual approach.

Why are we doing this?

The people who make up the company you know as Egan Medical have decided that a non-traditional approach to blogging best suits our business model. We will post coupons, deals, discounts and other rewards programs to various blogs. It will be up to you, the customer, to be diligent in keeping up so as to ensure you get the best savings possible.

In that sense, it's sort of like a game of 'Hide-and-Seek', only we're not necessarily hiding anything, just spreading it out across a variety of publishing platforms as opposed to one place. However, much like the game, when the customer "finds" the coupon, deal or discount for the specific product(s) he or she wishes to buy, that customer "wins" the "game".

It's designed to make it a little bit more fun for you the consumer, as well as convenient in the case of those blogs catered to individual product categories such as mobility equipment. A person who has diabetes may prefer to read a blog entirely dedicated to Egan's products for diabetics (and other useful and informative news and information about diabetes) than a blog about all sorts of different topics, including but not limited to diabetes. This person may not want to have to sort through pages upon pages about rollators and mobility scooters if their purpose for being there (the blog) is to read about diabetes or find ways to save on diabetic supplies such as Sensifoot Diabetic Socks.

We're going to make public where exactly we blog, and we will be posting different discounts, coupons and deals to each respective blog, with the goal of engaging our customers in a sort of game in which those customers who are the most dedicated in keeping up-to-date with our announcements reap the biggest rewards in terms of savings and in some cases giveaways.

To the best of our collective knowledge, this is not an approach that has been tried by any company we are aware of, and we'll find out sooner rather than later how well it's working out. The idea behind it is to make it fun for customers to save money by staying abreast of what we're publishing and where, so as to reap in the biggest rewards.

The only way to know what types of rewards we have in mind is to check back here at this blog early and often, and take not of when we announce any other blogs we may launch at various points in the future.

The Other Reason

The other reason we're deploying this particular approach is that we will likely be creating a number of blogs specific to our different product lines, so that customers who are interested in a particular line of products can get the information they're looking for without having to sort through loads of material that is irrelevant to that individual's particular interest.

For example, we may dedicate a blog specifically for mobility equipment, another for orthopedic-related topics (such as a wrist brace for carpal tunnel syndrome), and yet another for vitamins, supplements and nutrition-related topics. That way, customers who are only interested in a say, vitamin D supplements, won't have to read about the benefits of raised toilet seats before finding the information about the benefits of vitamin D, or a coupon to save money when buying vitamin D supplements.

Anyway, we will NOT be hiding any of our web logs, so you'll be informed of any and all that we may or may not create in the future, and you can choose whether or not you'd like to follow one, some or all of them.

Until further notice, this will be the primary blog for major company and product-related announcements.