Back in the late 1990s headlines such as “Travelers Beware” were rampant over the Internet--outrageous stories about organ selling, such as drugged travelers waking up in ice-cold baths after the kidney thief left the hotel, cooler in hand. Of course there is nothing associated with having a kidney removed and having transvaginal mesh removed. Or is there?Both surgical procedures are “illicit enterprises” that benefit a third party financially. These third parties are the kidney thieves paid on the black market. They are law firms that allegedly and highly improperly solicited AMS plaintiffs, women suffering from mesh complications, in the 100,000-case mesh litigation. The women who were (allegedly) approached did not have the mesh removed, for one reason or another. But these law firms know that a plaintiff’s case is worth more money if she has undergone mesh removal.
There is a lot of money to be made from women injured by transvaginal mesh. And a lot of people benefit. For instance (and this is rather convoluted, but please bear with us),
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So American Medical Systems (AMS) subpoenaed Law Firm HQ, AkinMears and a few other law firms. AMS claims that Law Firm HQ was at the heart of an “illicit enterprise” that steered mesh plaintiffs into unnecessary surgery in order to inflate damages claims.
According to Reuters, Law Firm HQ and others are fighting the AMS subpoenas, arguing that the pelvic mesh maker is improperly attempting to invade attorney-client privilege and that the defendant’s demands for information are irrelevant to the real issue of AMS’ liability to women implanted with mesh.
As if these women haven’t gone through enough….
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I returned relentlessly to the implanting OBGYN about the inability to urinate, chronic weakness, pain... Dr. would examine me and say nothing is wrong, your bladder and sling look great. "Let me give you some valium, you are just to uptight...this is in your head and you need to lighten up".
A few years post-op my daughter called from Houston- "Mom, when I took you to the Hospital for a bladder procedure; did they use something called MESH?". I said yes, (by this time I was on disability, couldn't sit for more than an hour, had been seen a couple of pain management doctor (who required a urine specimen, but would not catheterize me for it) ...even though I was not on prescription meds yet (my stubbornness).
However, I had been in Physical Therapy, Psychological Counseling for Pain and Loss, Steroid injections, Lydoderm Patches, ICE! ICE! and more ICE! Chiropractic care, Massage, Acupuncture and PRAYER! Prayer! Prayer! I developed a 20cm FLUID CYST with DEBRIS covering the whole top R side of my liver and some other smaller ones. The surgeon who removed the largest one said it had 1150 of fluid- largest he had ever seen. The surgical team in theatre were having a field day with that one! There was diverticulitis, Urinary Tract Infections, unexpected falls when my knees buckled with no warning, and once I was down on the floor it was like there was no connection between my brain and legs...I would have to wait until I could feel them and find something or someone to help me up. It happened in stores, parking lots, nursing homes, home, inside, outside...once IN THE BATH FILLED w water...It was s frightening...I only take showers now. TaDa...I lived on adrenalin, chronic disbelief that no one could tell me what was going on. My daughter was under the impression it had been recalled and everything about me was the same as advertised on TV (I don't watch TV). It is a horrible injustice that is still happening...to men, as well. I do not understand the laws and believe the FDA should be sued or be the ones suing these companies for us. Federal oversight of Medications and Devices should be dissolved and MEDICINE needs to be Governed by each State.
Dorothy Griggs
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