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# The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It Hardcover – Illustrated, December 12, 2017

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    a growing number of tomes have indicted a system that costs more than other advanced economies and delivers worse care despite providing universal coverage instead of our hit-or-miss ...
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2018*

Winston Churchill, after spending a decade warning the British Parliament & peopleabout the rise of Nazis in Germany, had to reach out to President Franklin D. Rooseveltto try to awaken the U.S. to the need to stop the subjugation of western civilization.  Duringthis period, he observed of the U.S., that :  “You can count on Americans to do the right thing,but only after they’ve tried everything else first.”  The same might well be said of our currenthealthcare system.  In recent years, a growing number of tomes have indicted a system that costs more thanother advanced economies and delivers worse care despite providing universal coverageinstead of our hit-or-miss coverage – Overdosed by Abramson, Overtreated by Brownlee,Ovediagnosed by Welch et al., Tracking Medicine by Wennberg & Ending Medical Reversalby Prasad.  These texts marshal the case against our healthcare system but don’t quite closethe loop:- Why has our system allowed unexplained variation across sites and yet claimed “scientific”  validity?- Why has “routine care”, when tested by the gold standard methodology (randomly-assigned,  controlled clinical trials or “RCTs”) been found to be ineffective, or harmful to patients about  half the time?- How do our practitioners recurrently fool themselves about the benefit/risk value  of new therapies when 80% of what they have done has NOT been properly vetted  by RCTs?  The Danger Within Us  tackles the safety and effectiveness of the arena of implanted devices.The semi-science that permits the acceptance of new therapies includes “clinical experience”and epidemiological correlations, but is mostly due to biomechanistic theories about normaland abnormal biology.  For example, angioplasty of occluded arteries was, for decades, acceptedbecause “an open artery is better than a closed artery” and thus stent placement “must” preventheart attacks and deaths.  Oops!  After twelve smaller RCTs failed to find a heart attack/death rate benefit, a massive RCT called COURAGE documented the absence of any benefit.A procedure that cost $27-45K dollars per patient and was done for about 30 years with reassurancesto patients that it prevented heart attacks was actually all an illusion.  Physicians and patients alikewere fooled by a placebo effect, and survivor bias – only those patients who didn’t die lived to testifythat angioplasty “saved my life”.  The dead can’t tell us the truth!  Lenzer does a yeoman’s job of educating us about the Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS) –a devicerampantly sold by a hucksterish CEO as a cure for pretty much anything that ails you (anxiety,depression, atrial fibrillation, autism, bulimia, fibromyalgia, heroin abuse, obesity, rheumatoidarthritis, tinnitus, heart failure, etc.).  The dangers were minimized/denied, the lack of efficacywas suppressed and the biomechanistic rationale was enough to achieve widespread use andto make billions of dollars for the manufacturer.  Lenzer also reviews the available clinical outcomedata on angioplasty, breast implants, pacemakers, defibrillators, surgical mesh, an implantedbirth control device, hip replacements, spinal implants, etc.  If our healthcare system is ever to be to be cost-effective and maximally safe, the lessons Lenzerprovides must by heeded.  The conjunction of a profit-driven free-market system with the clinicalsemi-science of modern American healthcare is not only bankrupting the country, it is killing thousands,and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of patients each year.  Is this why we don’t live as long as otherOECD countries despite spending a trillion or two more?  The healthcare system owes the public muchgreater scientific rigor.  We should not be socializing the cost of inadequately tested and validatedtherapies.  And we hould not be dying from our care.

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    What we don't know...
  

*by K***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 27, 2021*

After watching a Netflix documentary based on Ms Lenzer's book, I purchased her book and I'm not sorry. We are unaware that medical devices do not have to be approved by the FDA when the device is presented as a version of something that already exists. Thus, if hip replacements made of non-metal substances are being used, the introduction of the same devices made of metal is a shoo-in. Except that the metal involved can cause the breakdown of tissue, general health problems that doctors don't recognize as owing to the device, etc. This is just an example (metal replacements are not used now) of the complications arising from inadequate supervision. Just last week a news report about the damage caused by heart pumps used for people waiting for transplants came out in ProPublica. Read Ms. Lenzer's book as a precaution against devices that have not been adequately researched, tested, or which have not had any kind of approval by a competent institution.  You won't be sorry.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Read this outstanding book - it might save your life
  

*by D***P on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2018*

This book is simply fantastic.  It is an easy and fascinating read of how corrupt many organizations are in the USA.  I have known Jerome Hoffman, MD, who is referenced here for many years and he is a leader in Emergency Medicine.  I am an actively practicing emergency medicine physician of over 29 years and this book is a must read.Ms. Lenzer is an expert and has many articles published in the most respected medical journals, in the USA and abroad.I only wish there were more people out there like Ms. Lenzer and Dr. Hoffman who are trying to improve the medical care system by pointing out the flaws in medical studies and who are trying to do the 'right thing' for the American public without any reimbursement.

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