Amid the brouhaha over a congressional probe into over $1 million in payments from a Twin Cities-based medical device company, a prominent and longstanding Univ. of MN physician has resigned from a non-profit professional society of orthopedic medicine. Ethics in action?

Grassley’s investigation revealed that by 2007 Medtronic paid Polly $4,750 a day, or $594 an hour, with an annual cap of $400,000, and that Polly gave congressional testimony on spine surgery research without disclosing his relationship with Medtronic.  Medtronic said last month it was launching its own investigation of Polly’s consulting arrangement.

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