This entry was posted in Don Schwartz Spotlight on Documentaries by Don Schwartz. The more people who see the film, the faster the reform. The Bleeding Edge is a hard-hitting exposé of our corrupt health-care system. The Bleeding Edge is a great example of what strong journalism can do. The documentary discusses the problems with the FDA regulation of medical devices and metal on metal hip replacements in particular. If not, it is presently available on Netflix. The film’s website offers a linkto a petition drive for reform which, of course, yours truly signed. You may have seen or read about the recently released documentary The Bleeding Edge. It highlights the lack of regulation and testing of medical devices. The film does a deep dive into the powerful medical device industry. Dick and Herdy are two of the creative forces behind Netflix’s original documentary The Bleeding Edge. But, that circumstance cries for greater and faster actions. Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Herdy join me on this episode of Drugwatch Podcast. Obviously, the Republican take-over of our federal government makes significant reform at this time unlikely, if not impossible. Hopefully, this case along with other patient initiatives will lead to significant reform. The Essure case is emblematic, of course, of the corruption fueling this greed-driven attack on our corporal bodies. You will not need a hospital bed, but your mattress. It has caused extensive harm in women’s bodies, been banned in Europe, and yet still legal and in use in the United States.ĭick also covers initiatives by victims to hold both the FDA and manufacturers responsible for the harm they cause, and to fight for reform. Your bed should also be high enough so that your hips are higher than your knees when you sit on the edge.
Essure, a birth control device, receives most of the attention. The film profiles several patients who have been victimized-including a well-respected orthopedic physician who was severely injured by his own choice of hip replacement device. To say at least, the film is deeply disturbing and pictures the entire medical device industry and FDA as villains. The perpetrators are physicians inspired and supported by our medical industrial complex-specifically the FDA and device manufacturers. The documentary covers several devices: robotic laparoscopic surgery, metal-to-metal hip replacement, gynecological application of mesh, and birth control. In The Bleeding Edge well-lauded director Kirby Dick focuses on the harm that has been done, and is being done on patients who are treated with medical devices-a $400 billion industry. control device), vaginal mesh, the DaVinci Surgical System, and chrome-cobalt hip.
Iatrogenic: (adjective of a medical disorder) illness, injury or death caused by the diagnosis, manner, or treatment of a physician Bleeding Edge, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy explore how lax.
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