Exposing Corruption in the Medical Device Industry

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 18, 2017

Award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer discusses her new book The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It. She investigates the medical device industry. An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc. She exposed the corruption, cover-ups, profiteering, and lack of oversight, which threatens the safety of devices implanted into our bodies. 

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