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Scotland other mesh scandal: Hernia patients reveal how their lives have been ruined
Stumbled into this, there are some awful stories in this article, many of which will sound familiar to anyone on this forum. The good news is that it sounds like Scotland is at least aware there is a problem.
“Scotland’s other mesh scandal: Hernia patients reveal how their lives have been ruined by surgery”
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Unbelievable. I’ve often said that I would find it hard to believe my story, except that it is happening to me!
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Posting again to make sure people also see the other story that is linked in Chaunce’s first link. By hiding from the problem the medical device makers might be about to lose all of the mesh market in Scotland, when they probably could have kept the good products. A focus on revenue and seeing patients as profit centers might finally be catching up to them.
Published November 12, 2018.
From the article:
“Scotland was the first in the world to suspend the use of transvaginal mesh implants. The whole of the UK has followed suit.
But concern is now growing over hernia meshes, many of which are made from the same or similar material as transvaginal mesh, which has seen manufacturers pay over £3 billion compensation in the US.
A Sunday Post investigation into mesh revealed manufacturers knew 21 years ago of safety concerns but they went ahead.
Thousands of US hernia mesh cases will begin next year.”
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It’s very unsettling how common the descriptions of the problem are, around the globe and over many years. From the effects of the mesh to the responses of the surgeons. The more stories you see the more you realize that the device makers must be coaching or training the doctors, directly, or indirectly through influencing the various surgical societies, about how to get the patient to accept the operation and how to respond when there are problems. How can the stories be so similar? These stories from Scotland, published just a couple of months ago, are almost identical to my story from here in the United States, three years ago, and similar to many stories from other patients. How long can it go on? How can physicians ignore these stories and keep doing the same things that are obviously the cause? Without telling us that we might be “unlucky”?
Thanks for posting that link. It is well written.
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