It's one of the most complicated fields there is, and you know, that was a tribute to Amy Herdy who was just day in and day out going out there, researching, getting the facts, getting experts to come forward, getting people who had worked in the industry willing to speak. And then of course the science of this is really complicated, right? We're dealing with medical technology. And so you really get to know these people in a way that I've really never seen on film before. She's able to really get to the core of the story and develop a really close bond with the people that she's interviewing during the interview time. Well I think it sort of begins in a lot of ways with the interviews that we did and Amy Ziering, who is the other producer on the film, is a phenomenal interviewer. I mean they've lead to legislative change, policy change on a national basis, and we certainly hope that the same thing will happen here is that once people become aware of the problem, they'll move to solve it. So we've had great luck with our previous films. And so what we wanted to do, is - this is what we do with all our films - is we like to take on an area that people don't know about, and really bring it to the public, and then hopefully when patients, legislators, people within the medical industry see it, they will want to do something about it and improve the situation to protect patient safety.
We decided to focus on the medical device industry because obviously people know about all the issues with Big Pharma, I mean, just the many great books, documentaries, you know, newspaper pieces on it, but you know, very few people know that there's a sister industry, which is the medical technology, medical device industry, that is nearly as large, is much less regulated, and well the same kind of problems, in many ways, worse. And what we learned that was even more astonishing as we made the film was that most doctors who are implanting these devices don't know that most of the devices they're implanting have not been tested in humans.Įxactly. And so anybody receiving many of these devices is actually becoming a guinea pig. So these devices are implanted in people, are never tested in people first. And the thing that was most shocking to us is the overwhelming majority of medium-risk and high-risk devices are never tested in humans. She's the CEO of the National Center for Health Research in Washington, D.C., and she talked about one aspect of this issue, which is how many people are harmed by medical devices. I started doing research and that is the case, and what happens, and as Amy and I started doing more research on this, we heard a woman, Diana Zuckerman, who's the real expert in this. Well, when I heard that there were hundreds of thousands of people that had died in the medical system every year from preventable medical error, I initially didn't believe it.
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Injured by a medical device? Get a Free Case Review The Bleeding Edge premieres on Netflix on July 27. “I hope more people will ask questions about medical devices before they have them implanted … because their life could depend on it,” Herdy said. Food and Drug Administration, Herdy said. Part of the problem is that industry funds the U.S. Herdy, Dick and Ziering crafted their film around the stories of people injured by devices such as Essure, transvaginal mesh and metal-on-metal hip implants. She brought the story to Dick and fellow producer Amy Ziering. I remember thinking, ‘No, this can’t be.’… it’s the equivalent of two 747s crashing and killing everyone on board every day,” Herdy, one of the film’s producers, said.
“Several hundred thousand Americans die every year due to medical mistakes. After being treated for breast cancer, she spoke with a health care advocate. The worst thing about it is they get away with it, and they’ve been doing it for years, Dick and Herdy said. “The thing that was most shocking to us is that the overwhelming majority of medium-risk and high-risk devices are never tested in humans,” Dick, the film’s director, told Drugwatch. 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. Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Herdy join me on this episode of Drugwatch Podcast.
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