Hello everyone, I hope all is well with you. I’ve had a busy week of work and writing. The writing is going very well, and the story is coming together. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
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But enough about that. Today, I want to talk about a documentary I watched this weekend with my hubby. It’s on Netflix and it’s titled “The Bleeding Edge.”
It’s a documentary shining the light on the medical device industry, and the main story was about the Essure sterilization device used in women. This device was like a spring designed to be placed inside the fallopian tubes where it created a blockage so the sperm could not meet the egg. It sounds perfect in theory.
However, there were many side effects. Pain in the pelvic area and the abdomen. There were perforated uteruses, colons, and stomachs because the springs would break and float freely through the body.
Many women complained. Many women became pregnant, and the babies didn’t make it because the springs perforated the amniotic sac which caused early labor. The babies were born prematurely and died.
In Europe, the authorities took the product off the market because of all the above. It wasn’t removed from market in the US until 2018. After the FDA forced the manufacturer to post a list of side effects (black box) on the product and required the company to conduct a study on users of the device for three years after the procedure. With the FDA restricting the sale of Essure, the manufacturer pulled it from the market when the sales dropped by 70%.
This is a disturbing story on so many levels. It illustrates how the medical device industry places their importance on profits instead of lives. In my humble opinion, the device was making so much money for the company, it was cheaper to pay the lawsuits than to stop production.
To learn more about Essure, clink this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essure
This is what’s wrong with our system today. Big corporations are putting profits above human lives, and our government lets them get away with it. I know I’m not telling you anything you don’t know, but we need to hold our government accountable. They are the watchdogs for this industry and all other industries for that matter.
The problem is these companies also make contributions to campaigns for these politicians. It puts our politicians in a bind because now they owe these corporations their loyalty. To stop this, we should make it illegal for corporations to make campaign contributions. I know that probably won’t stop them from contributing, but it’ll make it harder. This probably won’t stop corporations from taking advantage of the public. It’s going to take victims speaking out to stop this from happening. How do you feel about this type of abuse? What do you think we can do about it? Leave a comment! I’d love to hear from you!
