May 8, 2013 ~ The trial of Marion Carpenter v. American Medical Systems which was scheduled to begin in San Bernardino California, May 13th, has been delayed until January or February of 2014. Attorney Stewart Albertson tells MDND that decision was made by both sides appearing before Judge Bryan F. Foster, in the San Bernardino
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April 25, 2013~ Once again our prolific patient advocate enlightens and educates women considering traveling across the country to go to University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to have surgery. This time Linda had reconstruction and the anchoring of her bladder after mesh removal last October. This followup visit is part of the reconstruction that
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January 22, 2013 ~ Much thanks to Courtroom View Network for access to the live court proceedings and graphics shown to the jury. The Prolift surgical mesh did not undergo any FDA approval before it was marketed in March 2005. Last June Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson announced it was removing Prolift and
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January 12~ 2012 Thanks to Courtroom View Network for providing a live feed to MDND. Day two of Linda Gross v Ethicon trial in an Atlantic City court brought an Ethicon engineer to the stand who was presented with a mountain of internal company documents intended to show how safety and efficacy of the Prolift
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December 7, 2012 ~ Beverly Martiniano talked to MDND earlier this year about her encounter with synthetic transvaginal mesh. Back then she was waiting until October when she would turn 65 and qualify for Medicare and mesh removal after suffering mesh complications. Well that happened and she enthusiastically wants to talk about her surgery in
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November 26 ~ The blood is boiling of our patient advocate. She’s heard from a woman who has it in writing that the doctor would not use synthetic mesh in a sling surgery and the op report says there is mesh – a Desara sling. Read her blog here: http://teapapers.com/bladdersling/2012/11/mesh-doctors-without-ethics/ What can you do legally?
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November 25, 2012 ~ Last June, mesh victim, Pat Buchanan was visited in her Seattle apartment by a television news crew from KING-TV. They filmed her going through her triathlon gear which she had shelved after she began experiencing synthetic mesh complications in 2011. The story is here. One week later, Buchanan would be going
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We at MDND along with many patient advocates hear so many stories of women who are suffering from mesh complications. Many seek mesh removal or revision surgery. Some are even feeling there might be some light at the end of the long hard road. Here is an essay from a number of women who are
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Is it possible to feel normal again after mesh removal? What is feeling normal? Linda, the Teapapers blogger wonders as her surgery looms 3 weeks ahead and she worries. Although she is going to Dr. Raz, perhaps the best surgeon in the world for removing difficult transvaginal mesh, she still worries about the outcome. What
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For the lucky (relative term) ones who can afford, or have their insurance afford to send them for a mesh removal at UCLA and Dr. Shlomo Raz – where do they park? Park is the word because so many of these women cannot sit in an airplane seat for any time, so special rigs, gurneys
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