Crystal Mesh: How Addiction to Money Turned Medical Device Makers, the FDA, and Doctors Into Street Dealers - Softcover

Mundy, Alicia; Banmiller, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733431500 ISBN 13: 9781733431507

Publisher: Periscope Group Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

The inside story of mesh and how women’s health was traded for quick cash.

This is a story about greed.

The story of vaginal mesh and genital mutilation has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster—billions of dollars, vulnerable women patients, Lamborghinis and ski trips dangled in front of doctors, and scandalous corporate emails. But it’s not a movie. It is real life, and real women are left suffering in the wake of capitalism gone wild.

About this title

About the Author:

Alicia Mundy is an award-winning author, reporter, and columnist in Washington, D.C. She has covered health care and the pharmaceutical- and medical-device industry for twenty years. She focused on Congress and the lobbying of powerful corporations and interest groups representing health care companies, such as vaginal mesh makers. Her first book, Dispensing with the Truth, revealed company secrets about the fen-phen diet drug scandal and was a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award. She was a reporter in the DC bureau of the Wall Street Journal and later was chief investigator for Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee, looking at the high costs of medicine.

Jennifer Banmiller has been involved in the consumer marketing and media business for thirty years. She is the founder of Wingtip Communications, Inc., as well as legal consumer advocacy sites such as www.periscopegroup.com. The author of "Salesmanship 101" for attorneys, she is a fervent advocate for consumers in the healthcare field.

About this edition

• Publisher: Periscope Group Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1733431500
• ISBN 13: 9781733431507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 359