The Bleeding Edge

This was a sobering documentary about the medical device industry.  The book, The Dangers Within, by Jeanne Lenzer is an important companion piece.  It is well-worth watching.

In The Bleeding Edge (2018), Academy Award-nominated investigative filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering turn their sights on the $400 billion medical device industry; examining lax regulations, corporate cover-ups, and profit-driven incentives that put patients at risk daily. Weaving emotionally powerful stories of people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed, it asks: What lifesaving technologies may actually be killing us? It explores Bayer's permanent birth control device Essure, vaginal mesh, the Da Vinci Surgical System, and chrome-cobalt hip-replacements.