Motley Fool -- Kinetic Concepts (NYSE: KCI) took a bad-tasting quarter and swallowed it whole. While slowdowns in capital spending at hospitals wreaked havoc on other medical-device makers such as Intuitive Surgical (Nasdaq: ISRG), Natus Medical (Nasdaq: BABY), and Hologic (Nasdaq: HOLX), Kinetic Concepts seems to have been able to get through it with only minor bruises.
