'This is great, please use it in infants.' Because of your film, it stuck in my mind and I wrote them back and I said, 'Can I see the studies that shows that it can be used in newborns?' And they wrote back and said, 'There are no studies. He said, “Well I was sent a device to use, and typically I would take it at face value.
And he says, “I just want you to know, your film completely changed the way I work.” Remember I gave you notes?” This person will remain anonymous, but is super high up in a major medical institution in LA, let's just put it that way.
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He's like, “Oh my god, I have to talk to you.” I was like, “What?” He goes, “I saw your movie a month ago.
About a month later, I was just out and about in LA, and I happened to run into. "Did we get anything wrong?" We wanted to make sure everything was solid, so we had a bunch of medical people at the screening. Pretty late in the game, we wanted to bring the experts in. Ziering: We do these test screenings to see how the films playing. These devices caused nightmarish complications in hundreds to thousands of patients, ranging from a doctor who had a psychotic breakdown due to cobalt poisoning from his hip replacement, to one woman whose organs fell out after being operated on by a robot. The case studies here are the Essure birth control device, transvaginal mesh implants, cobalt metal-on-metal hip replacements, and the DaVinci surgical robot. The film zeroes in on an FDA loophole called the 501(k) exemption, which operates by the transitive property, allowing device manufacturers to sell their products without testing or trials as long as they are similar to other devices on the market-even if those devices were ultimately recalled for safety concerns. This investigative research yields systematic corporate cover-ups, profit-driven incentives, and insufficient regulations that jeopardize doctors' ability to uphold the Hippocratic Oath. But to the patients whose lives have been irrevocably-and often traumatically-harmed due to complications from devices that were not tested on humans, it's an understatement.įollowing the game-changing success of their controversial documentaries about sexual assault- The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War- Dick and Ziering have created a searing exposé filled with testimonies from top experts in the field and well-researched facts from dozens medical studies and legal documents. That's a bold statement to make about a $400 billion healthcare industry, particularly coming from its former gatekeeper. David Kessler in Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering's Netflix documentary The Bleeding Edge. "When it comes to medical devices, we created a system that doesn’t work," says former FDA commissioner Dr. A new Netflix documentary from Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering shines a light on the perils of the medical device industry.
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