During the two sessions, the issue of "recommending that rabies vaccines be compulsory and free on dogs" attracted people's attention to vaccines again.
The incident of Changsheng Biotech’s ineffective vaccine last year is still fresh in our minds, and this year’s Quanjian incident has subverted people’s imagination...
At yesterday’s 315 party, the black industry of medical waste was exposed again, with many infusion bottles, infusion bags, etc. Be processed into daily necessities and toys.
Medical chaos has been exposed time and time again, which is proof of the damage to consumer rights. It also reflects from one side that life has become the least valuable thing in the medical benefit chain. In the medical world, what are the unknown insider stories?
DOCO can’t answer it, but I watched a documentary produced by Netflix and learned a lot of stories.
Anyone who knows Netflix knows that it shoots some sensitive and taboo subjects. This "The Truth about Advanced Medical Care" focuses on the field of medical devices in the United States.
The medical device industry, which is known as high-end, has an annual output value of 300 billion, and the industry's development speed is surprising.
Permanent sterilizers, vaginal mesh, surgical robots and other devices have been developed one after another and implanted in the bodies of nearly 70 million Americans.
What is the effect? Enter the documentary "The Truth about Advanced Medical Care" and open a new door to the medical world.
Essure permanent sterilizer
Let’s first get to know the Essure permanent sterilizer. Look at this thing, it looks simple, with a 4 cm small ring, it’s cute and cute.
The contraceptive method also sounds very convenient. It can be inserted into the uterus and placed in the fallopian tube.
Its principle of action is to cause inflammation to produce scar tissue. Scar tissue will permanently seal the fallopian tube and prevent sperm and eggs from meeting, thereby achieving a contraceptive effect.
This device was originally designed by Conceptus and later acquired by the German company Bayer.
The advertisement says that it is superior to traditional fallopian tube ligation surgery. It does not require surgery and leaves no scars. You can be discharged from the hospital in 45 minutes after the operation and can go to work the next day .
And people also said that two small devices can be implanted into the body without anesthesia, and you will not feel anything during the operation.
does not require surgery and is permanently effective . This is definitely the best choice for all women who intend to have sterilization!
Ana from New York decided to have permanent contraceptive surgery after giving birth to four children, and her doctor recommended the Essure device for her.
After the operation, Ana felt a cramp in her abdomen as soon as she stepped out of the doctor's office.
One week after the operation, her menstrual bleeding was unprecedented. Sometimes it was so severe that she had to wear diapers. She often "visited" the hospital because of the pain. On several occasions, she even fainted from the pain at work.
Ana called the doctor for consultation, and the doctor responded: "Those two little things will not cause any problems. The phenomena you mentioned cannot be caused by them."
Another doctor explained her bleeding problem this way: "Most Latin American women There is a lot of blood during menstruation, so this is normal.”
Another woman who had an Essure implantAngie also experienced severe physical discomfort.
She often had fevers and bleeding. She would only stop bleeding for two days a month. The sharp pain on the left side of her uterus was getting worse and worse.
Angie went to the hospital for a check-up and found out that the Essure device, which was supposed to stay in the fallopian tube, had fallen into her uterus. If it fell in, it had to be taken out, so the doctor performed an operation on her and said everything would go smoothly after that.
As a result, she suffered from severe bleeding soon after the operation. After treatment, she still suffered from uterine inflammation all year round. The inflammation caused headaches, and sometimes the pain could reach level 10 at night, requiring traction equipment to treat it.
After experiencing this pain, Angie established a Facebook group to remind female friends to stay away from Essure.
This group began to grow like a snowball, and women joined the group every day, telling their tragic experiences here -
long-term headaches and abdominal pain after surgery, slowed down movements, memory loss , and in more serious cases, contraception Failure, premature delivery and difficult delivery, the baby was born with health problems...
In the United States, tens of thousands of women are suffering from the implantation of the Essure permanent sterilizer.
vaginal mesh
After talking about the problems with permanent sterilization medical equipment, let’s talk about a small technology that is also used on women.
Vaginal mesh, scientific name "hernia mesh" , is made of polypropylene resin fiber pressed and woven. This thing is used to help women who are elderly or have had too many children.
In women who have had too many children, the function of the pelvic floor muscles around the openings of the urethra, vagina and rectum decreases, and they are prone to incontinence, pelvic floor organ prolapse, etc.
Johnson & Johnson Seeing doctors using hernia mesh to repair women's fragile tissues, they thought this was a good business opportunity, so they began selling hernia mesh in large quantities for pelvic floor treatment.
Johnson & Johnson's advertisement goes like this: As long as the mesh is implanted in the vaginal incision, the organs can be fixed in place. It is a minor surgery that can be completed in 45 minutes..
Look, medical devices once again promoted the slogan of being convenient, fast and easy to operate, but the results were once again disappointing.
Patient Tammy began to feel severe pain when she returned home after the operation, and also vomited, had a fever, and had difficulty walking ...
Once the mesh is implanted, it will produce scars and will stick to the human tissue permanently . The scar will also shrink with the mesh, pulling on other tissues around the mesh.
mesh and scars will also turn into hard objects, making it difficult for surrounding organs to function normally. What is even more anti-scientific is that once the mesh is implanted, it cannot be completely removed !
In order to remove the mesh, Tammy underwent 18 operations, but it was still not completely removed. The mesh remaining in her body cut her husband...
When Tammy was undergoing surgery, her daughter stayed with her and asked, "Mom, you have mesh, do you blame me?" She knew. The main reason why Mom had the mesh implanted was that due to childbirth, Tammy's health problems became a pain for the whole family.
Injured women began suing Johnson & Johnson, which cost Johnson & Johnson $300 million in lawsuits over a decade during which its total revenue exceeded $683 billion.
surgical robot
These high technologies do not seem to benefit people. Instead, they use the human body as a "test field" to test the achievements of science and technology.
Look at these appalling medical malpractices. After
was "treated" by the surgical robot, 0 cm of intestine fell out .
After being "treated" by a surgical robot, her vagina broke and she said goodbye to her sex life. Sexual intercourse means death .
Who is the surgical robot?
It's called Da Vinci, and it can bring together cameras and various tools in a small pipe. There's no place it can't go.
Doctors can use Da Vinci for remote surgery, even if they are two meters away from the patient. They operate on the remote control panel and look at the screen to perform surgery with the remote control hand.
The surgical robot, which is known as "the most stable operation, lowest risk, and fastest recovery", has caused so many troubles, but the company that produces it, Intuitive Surgical, has not come out to take responsibility, and in turn recommended that doctors decide whether to use surgical robots.
But the fact behind it is that in order to persuade doctors to use it, companies often downplay the difficulty of using robots, and many doctors get started like this - before
is officially used, the control is trained on pigs, and then two games are completed under the supervision of another doctor. After surgery, you can operate the machine yourself.
This doctor said that he only felt able to control the surgical robot proficiently after performing two to three hundred surgeries. So, were the two or three hundred previous patients guinea pigs?
Medical technology needs innovation and development, but can it be more rigorous? Are you kidding me about risking human lives for innovation?
The shocking approval process
Shocking medical accidents are exciting the hearts of patients and us. What is the problem? Has the safety of these cutting-edge medical devices been verified? How did they get approval to enter the market?
In order to get answers, female friends who have been injured by the Essure permanent sterilizer began to gather together to find information about the device’s approval.
They discovered that Essure had gone through the pre-market approval process, which is PMA. This process requires that must undergo human testing, and after compiling all experimental data, submit to FDA scientists for review.
(FDA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is responsible for supervising food, drugs, biological agents, medical devices, etc.)
The PMA process is the most stringent way to obtain device approval, but from the actual situation, this process is not perfect.
It is much more relaxed than the drug approval process. Most drugs must go through two clinical trials and must have large patient samples. However, when approving devices through the PMA process, only one study is required, and the study scale is often very small, sometimes with only a sample size of 100 people, and the follow-up observation period only lasts 1-2 years.
Team members also found a video of the 2002 FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) meeting to approve Essure. At the
meeting, members of the expert group raised many questions: What will happen if
touches the electrode of the metal ring? Is there any problem with fallopian tube perforation? What are the consequences of implantation for people with metal allergies?
However, neither Essure spokesperson provided valid data to answer the expert group's questions.
At the end of the meeting, an expert asked: "What if something goes wrong in ten years?" Someone responded: "Private investigators will find each of us and bring us back here and ask us why we need to pass the approval."
Everyone After hearing this, everyone burst into laughter. Just like that, even with many questions unanswered, Essure passed the approval process and was approved for market use.
Doctors who neglected their duties
The FDA, as the gatekeeper of people’s health in the United States, has failed in its duties, but what about the doctors who treat diseases and save lives?
In fact, doctors really don’t know much about FDA’s supervision of medical devices and are confused about the device approval process..
Some doctors will also take it for granted: "The FDA is responsible for this, and of course these devices have been tested on humans."
In addition, many doctors do not understand how to implant and remove new medical devices. It is difficult to control the strength of pulling, cutting, and stretching during the operation. If you are not careful, the equipment will be damaged and fragments will be left in the patient's body.
Angie experienced a nightmare caused by improper doctor operation. After the instrument was broken, the fragments left in the body triggered the immune system, which later caused connective tissue disease and the joints began to deteriorate.
Every year, ACOG, the largest organization of obstetricians and gynecologists in the United States, holds a meeting, attended by thousands of obstetricians and gynecologists, but there are still many doctors who believe that there is nothing wrong with the devices that have caused many medical accidents. At the
conference, a patient and a doctor had such a conversation.
Patient: "Do you know all the side effects of Essure?"
Doctor: "If the surgery is done well, there won't be any problems."
Patient: "What if there are complications?"
Doctor: "Just remove the device. Okay, pull it out."
Patient: "That won't work, it will break."
Doctor: "You're not a doctor, you're just talking nonsense.”
Some unscrupulous doctors were tempted by money and became hidden “salesmen” of medical device companies.They all received generous kickbacks.
In 2016, medical companies The "kickbacks" paid by the company to doctors exceeded 2 billion US dollars.
A genuine salesperson who once worked for a medical device company was once complained by a doctor: "Your products are good, but you don't do enough for me. , I use other people's products because they do more for me. "
After reading the layers of chaos revealed in "The Truth about Advanced Medical Care", Mr. DOCO was surprised, angry, heartbroken, disappointed, and had mixed emotions.
Those medical equipment that should shine with the light of science and technology and serve human health, Now there is only a cold mechanical light. They are under the control of interests. It has long become a cash cow for some unscrupulous people.
Doctors knew that the new device might cause complications, but did not inform patients;
The FDA knew that the new device had not been tested on humans, but still let it enter the market;
Medical companies knew that many patients Feedback about side effects, but still choose to ignore it.
Countless patients suffer from damage to their physical health, collapse of their mental world, and destruction of their family life. What makes them even more desperate is that they have no way to defend their rights and make complaints useless...
This documentary 2018 It aroused heated discussion after it was released on April 21, 2018. Douban scored 8.9 and Rotten Tomatoes website On November 26, the German company Bayer announced that it would stop selling Essure in the United States, and the freshness index reached 100%.
On November 26, Midland. The agency released news claiming: “FDA The medical device approval process will be comprehensively rectified. "
This is a good thing, but it is not enough.
Each of us may become a victim of the immature era of medical devices. What we and every patient can do are -
1. For medical devices used on the body or in the body Conduct research on equipment, new may not necessarily be better
2. For risky or expensive surgeries, seek expert advice
3. Ask the doctor how many related surgeries he has performed
4. Find out if the doctor has been paid by a medical company
5. Be brave enough to speak out and let friends or family speak up for us
Protect yourself and be wary of cutting-edge medical traps that may appear at any time. It's our own, don't let it become something that is trampled on at will in the chain of interests
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