Hernia Mesh: An Absolute Health Disaster

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The story about surgical mesh that is being implanted in the bodies of thousands of people every day is not a story the corporate media would ever tell you.

In fact, they can't tell you because their corporate advertisers the people who make this product won't allow them to do investigative exposés about how dangerous surgical mesh really is. The advertising dollars are just too big for them.

Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and attorney Robert Price discuss this.

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We're about to un-ring a fire on Mike Papantonio here with Robert Price. Robert of course does, you've seen him on the show before. He does complex litigation all over the country, mostly with medical devices. So I want to talk to it right now. The story about surgical mesh, this being implanted in the bodies of thousands of people every day, is not a story that corporate media can tell you, because their advertisers won't let them tell you this story. In fact, they can't tell you because their advertisers, the people who make this product, not only won't tell them, won't allow them to do it, they'll actually dry up advertising money if they tell stories like this.

Mike Papantonio: So they can't really do an investigative expose about this. The advertising dollars are just too big. So with me right now is Attorney Robert Price. He's handling hernia mesh cases, and he's going to tell us the story that you won't hear anywhere else. Robert, first of all, has it, hernia mesh, it's been around forever, we think it's something that's fairly innocuous they're putting in human bodies all over the country. Give me your take on how bad this actually is, this hernia mesh story.

Robert Price: It's really bad, Mike, especially in the past 10 years or so, because you're right. Surgical mesh, and polypropylene, which is a plastic based mesh, has been used for decades in the surgical community. But what we're seeing here is that these manufacturers are now making these, I kind of call them these easy kits for doctors, with these different meshes with these designs. There are experimental designs that they each use to try to jump ahead of one another in this market share race.

Mike Papantonio: In other words, somebody comes in with a hernia operation.

Robert Price: Yeah.

Mike Papantonio: It used to be that you had to have a special surgeon that could do that.

Robert Price: Right.

Mike Papantonio: And so the industry says, "Oh no, we're going to make something where any doctor can do this. They don't have to have special training. They don't have to be a special surgeon. Just give them the kit, and let them go." Isn't that kind of what this industry is?

Robert Price: Absolutely correct. If you've got a really skilled surgeon, that surgeon doesn't necessarily need mesh. Or if that surgeon does need to use mesh, it's a small piece of mesh, or it's a more complex procedure. So absolutely. It's this sort of sales mentality, it's like, "Well, anybody can do this. Here's this special mesh. It's easy to use. It's got this coding, or it's got this ring, or it's got this special feature that makes it great." And the special feature is completely bogus, and it's unstudied, and it's causing infections, and all sorts of massive, massive debilitating injuries.

Mike Papantonio: Okay. You saw this same thing. You kind of led the charge on the vaginal mesh. They were putting this mesh inside women's vaginas, and inside they're trying to hold up the kidney, and the urinary system. Explain that case, because this is just an extension of that, isn't it?