Normal or not, Medtronic's headwinds are very real. It has to do something (that something will be discussed in point 3). I'm confident that management will figure out what needs to be done and, more to the point, successfully get it done. My confidence comes from the company's dividend history, with Medtronic having increased its dividend for 48 consecutive years. That's just two years shy of Dividend King status. You have to have a strong business model that gets executed well in both good times and bad t ...