KICKING FARMACEUTICAL FANNY!

All Meshed Up?

HELP ME AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY THE COMPLICATIONS OF SYNTHETIC SURGICAL MESH.....

KICK SOME FARMACEUTICAL FANNY!

Go to http://www.truthinmedicine.us.com/

REGISTER ON THE WORLDWIDE REGISTRY OF COMPLICATIONS OF SYNTHETIC SURGICAL MESH!!

SOMEBODY'S GOTTA DO IT!

IT'S FOR SURE GOVERNMENT AND THE HEALTH SYSTEM ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT!!

THEY LIVE IN THE ANTIQUATED WORLD OF THE MAUDE DATA BASE....

MANUFACTURER AND USER DATA BASE EXPERIENCE ?

@#!&?^>!@#!&%$#@

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT YOU WOULD SAY...

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHAT IS THAT? HEAR ANYBODY TALKING ABOUT IT AT THE WATER COOLER? I DON'T THINK SO!

THE TRICK HERE IS THE MANUFACTURER WANTS TO MAKE SURE YOU NEVER HEAR OF IT. WHY IS THAT?

EASY...YOU DON'T REPORT YOUR NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE, OR HORRIFIC COMPLICATION, FROM THEIR NIFTY ? ? LIFE-SAVING ? ? MEDICAL DEVICE....THEIR DEFECTIVE MEDICAL DEVICES ARE NOT RECALLED.

THEY GO ON TO DESTROY MORE LIVES.....PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY, FINANCIALLY...

LET'S STOP THAT CYCLE!

LET'S STEP OUTSIDE THE BOX!

REGISTER YOUR COMPLICATIONS AT

WWW.TRUTHINMEDICINE.US.COM!!!

LET'S SHOW EVERYONE THE TRUTH!

JOIN THE TEAM AT TRUTH IN MEDICINE!

LET'S STOP THE USE OF PETROLEUM-BASED SYNTHETIC SURGICAL MESH IN HUMAN BEINGS!!!

LET'S KICK SOME FARMACEUTICAL FANNY!!!

HAVE QUESTIONS? NEED ANSWERS? WE'RE HERE TO HELP!!!

truthinmedicine@bellsouth.net

GYNECARE TVT COMPLICATIONS & DEATHS CONTINUE TO RISE!

ETHICON'S PROLENE POLYPROPYLENE SYNTHETIC SURGICAL MESH USED IN GYNECARE TVT DEVICE INTERNALLY MUTILATES HUMAN BEINGS!

EVERY DAY MORE & MORE PEOPLE WITH MESH COMPLICATIONS FROM HERNIA REPAIR, PELVIC FLOOR DISORDER AND BLADDER SUSPENSION, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, CONTACT ME SEARCHING FOR HELP!

Every morning the FDA, the CDRH and the Pharmaceutical Companies have blood on their hands. Every day new victims of synthetic surgical mesh complications are internally mutilated and begin a slow horrifying death…of their life as they knew it, of their hopes and dreams, of their physical abilities.

Americans go to doctors, whom they trust, who perform surgery on them in accredited hospitals using FDA approved products. They believe in the system. Americans don’t ask questions. They trust a system that actually betrays them.

The FDA facilitates the pharmaceutical industry’s betrayal of Americans and the health system because of the flawed 510 (k) Premarket Notification Approval Process.

There is greater interest in profitability for industry than in assuring patient safety. Speed of approval is more important than safety. As for the efficacy of thousands of medical devices implanted in Americans, that is an unknown.

The FDA’s 510 (k) Pre-market Notification submission process only establishes that medical devices are “substantially equivalent” to a product already approved for sale. There is no proof of the safety and efficacy of these medical devices. No human clinical trials are required.

All Americans need to be well advised of the difference between the FDA’s Pre-Market Approval and the FDA’s 510 (k) Pre-Market Notification submission processes.

Pre-Market Approval means that there have been human clinical trials. Safety and efficacy of the medical device has been established. Risks and complications of the device are relatively well known.

Pre-Market Notification means that the pharmaceutical companies have followed the FDA’s criteria for establishing “substantial equivalence”. The medical device is approved for sale. No human clinical trials are necessary.

For Pre-Market Notification, the safety and efficacy[that it actually works] of the device does not have to be established. Risks and complications will be learned as physicians perform surgery on the general public. Each and every surgical patient is unknowingly a part of a human clinical trial, a guinea pig.

Steps to educate the American public about these very important differences have to be enacted by Congress. The following actions would enable all Americans to make informed decisions about their healthcare.

a. Provide a written statement to every patient entering the hospital for implantation of a medical device clearly explaining the difference between Pre-Market Approval and Pre-Market Notification. The patient should be notified at that time what the approval process was with the FDA for the medical device and/or foreign body being implanted in them.

b. Provide an Adverse Event Report to each and every patient with his/her discharge papers following any procedure involving any foreign body that is implanted in them.

The Adverse Event Report should include the name of the manufacturer, name of the product, model/catalog #, FDA approval number whether Pre-Market Approval or 510 (k) Pre-Market Notification, name of doctor performing implantation, user facility, date of surgery, original diagnosis for procedure, surgical procedure followed for the implantation of the foreign body, traceability label, etc.

For future medical care, patients will be able to fully advise their doctors of anything and everything that is in their bodies

Inadequate, substandard physician training in the implantation of synthetic surgical mesh significantly increases the percentage of complications.

Each new mesh product and/or delivery method has a learning curve for each doctor. There is a much greater incidence of complications in the first 20 implantation procedures of medical devices that any doctor performs.

If there are 20,000 doctors performing procedures on their first 20 patients using only one medical device through one method of implantation, that would be 400,000 patients that are at greater risk for complications from that one product alone.

As there are over 10,000 new medical devices approved by the FDA each year used by 20,000 doctors on 20 patients, the figure would be in the multi millions.

This learning curve is devastating to the American public. This does not factor in bad doctors and bad medical care, only the normal percentages of a new procedure with a good doctor.

Human tissue is powerless against implanted synthetic surgical mesh. The mesh moves at will within the human body.

Movement of the mesh within the body, erosion, as it is so benignly described, is an irreversible complication. Removing the mesh from the human body when it causes complications is an Irreversible Complication. It is like removing gum from hair. No package insert for mesh from any pharmaceutical company states this.

Once the complication occurs, physicians do not know how to remove the mesh. Or it is physically impossible to remove because of where it is within the body. Explantation of surgical mesh has not been addressed on the package inserts or in the limited training of doctors who implant surgical mesh.

Very frequently mesh victims are substantially more harmed during the removal of the mesh, the explantation process, than from the irreversible complications of erosion. Daily torment from the complications of surgical mesh becomes a way of life for its victims.

The long term impact of these Synthetic Surgical Meshes on the lives of the victims, the load placed on the health care system, the load placed on the court system and on all Americans through increased premiums to major medical insurance companies who pay for the continuing care of Surgical Mesh Victims is staggering. This is a major medical catastrophe. The use of surgical meshes has to be completely stopped.

The FDA, the CDRH and HHS depend on an extremely flawed system to make determinations about recalling these dangerous medical devices and drugs. Who knows about the MAUDE database?

Certainly not me, until I nearly died from the surgical implantation of the Gynecare TVT System and its TVT device, Prolene polypropylene mesh.

Most people don’t unless they become seriously injured by a defective medical device or a dangerous medication.

Please do your part to remove Petroleum Based Synthetic Surgical Mesh from the marketplace completely.

Go to www.truthinmedicine.us.com and fill out the Worldwide Registry of Complications of Surgical Mesh.

The information will be compiled and given to Congress to force the FDA/CDRH to recall all Synthetic Surgical Mesh from the marketplace.

The site is secure and encrypted. No one will have your name or identifying information. The only one to see all the information will be me.

Your privacy will be protected by assigning a number to your submission to the Registry when used in the presentation to Congress.

Take the steps to stop this from happening to one more human being. Go to www.truthinmedicine.us.com right now. You can not change what happened to you. You can stop it from happening to another human being!!

God bless, Lana Keeton

With Great Pride, in Honor of My Amazing Incredible Father, Private 1st Class Kenneth Harold Keeton who served our country in World War II

KENNETH HAROLD KEETON

MARCH 4, 1923 - JULY 18, 1962

Yesterday I received copies of letters that my Father wrote to his Mother and younger sisters in 1943, 1944 and 1945 while he was serving in World War II in the Phillippines. Monday November 10, 2008...one day before Veteran's Day I get those letters! That's the best. A window into the world my Father lived while he was serving our country.

One letter he wrote his Mom while he was in basic training at Camp Mackall in Hoffman, North Carolina in March 1944 was signed "Love and good night again to all, "Pvt." Kenneth Harold Keeton....out to the left in the margin by "Pvt." he wrote "I'm proud of this." with an arrow pointing to it. Wow, that made me feel good.

That's the man who loved me and raised me to be who I am. A man who was proud to serve the in the armed forces of the United States of America and make it safe and free.

My Dad died of a heart attack at 39 one hot summer day in July 1962. Worst day of my life. But every single day of my life I know how much he loved me. That love has carried me through some unbelievably tough stuff in my life, but nothing that could ever compare to the time he proudly served our country, the United States of America in the 188th Glider Infantry in the United States Army during World War II.

I pray for every person that reads these words the kind of amazing love that I had from my Father.

God bless my wonderful loving Father and God bless America!

I'll see you in heaven Daddy! God, I miss you with all my heart. Give Mom a kiss for me. I know you are there together. In love and honor, your daughter, Lana

The Gold Standard of Medical Care Now!

THE ANSWER IS TRUTH IN MEDICINE!

The Human Body is powerless against synthetic surgical meshes used for hernia repair, pelvic floor dysfunction and bladder suspension, both male and female. Unfortunately, the ability to sue in state courts is not the answer.

The answer is TRUTH IN MEDICINE.

Petroleum Based Synthetic Surgical Meshes do not belong in the Human Body.

Surgical Meshes are foreign bodies and the body tries to expel this foreign body in any way that it can. The human body can not expel synthetic surgical mesh.

Despite extensive, well known published studies of the horrific complications of synthetic surgical meshes, the use proliferates daily. Commercialization of surgical mesh by multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical giants has substituted “surgical mesh kits” for good surgical skills.

Doctors, who would never consider doing a procedure knowing they do not have the requisite skills, are emboldened by the “mesh kits” that tout “minimally invasive, outpatient procedure”. “Local anesthesia, short recovery time, back to work in a few days.….just use this handy piece of polypropylene attached to this needle or ring or implantation mechanism and you can start your own assembly line. Line up those gurneys around your office, like the cars lined up at the McDonald’s drive thru.”

And a little “business enhancement program”, offered as an incentive by the pharmaceutical giants, builds the reputations and the practices of these unskilled doctors cum “skilled surgeons”. They become known throughout the community as innovators, leaders in this new and exciting world of petroleum based synthetic meshes as replacement parts for humans.

Never mind that human tissue is powerless against mesh. Never mind that this unskilled surgeon is incapable of removing the mesh once you have complications. Never mind that lack of skill of the surgeon is not the only reason mesh can not be removed. The worst of it is, removing the mesh is frequently a greater danger than leaving it in the body.

Human tissue has grown into the interstices of the mesh. Nerves have become entrapped in the mesh. Unskilled surgeons will send you to pain management. Uneducated surgeons will cut your nerves. Irresponsible surgeons will remove muscles and other parts…ovaries, uteruses, testicles, spermatic cords.

Doctors will remove pieces and parts of the human body, all the while denying mesh is the cause of the complications. Why will they deny mesh is the cause of the problem? They will be reciting the script given to them by the multi billion dollar pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers to keep the doctors and the pharmaceutical companies from being sued.

So here we are again.

The Doctor believes you will sue him for destroying your life as you knew it. All you want is a doctor who will treat you and make you whole again. Suing a doctor is not the answer to your horrific medical complications.

Truth in Medicine is the answer.

All you want is TRUTH.

All you want is MEDICAL CARE.

All you want is not to have to go to another doctor, not to have another infection, not to have another procedure, not to lose your job, to be able to pick up your grand baby, to be able to make love again, for the pain to stop.

That does not happen because Truth in Medicine no longer exists.

Today’s world of “confidentiality” protects doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, and the FDA. Nothing protects patients anymore. Patients have been dropped into the black hole of confidentiality so they will not know the truth.

How did this happen? What happened to Truth in Medicine? What happened to “First do no Harm”?

Looking back, Baby boomers have driven cultural changes in the U.S. for decades. In the 50’s there was a tremendous expansion of schools to serve boomers who were passing through the nations’ school systems. The list of changes driven by 80 million baby boomers passing through our society goes on and on.

McDonalds started serving hamburgers to millions and millions of Baby Boomers. Fast food created a fast food mentality about life in general. Nowadays, anytime one has to wait for something more than 15 seconds, 30 seconds, everyone is complaining.

This has translated into medicine…fast food medicine and disease mongering. While disease mongering made the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes diseases to be treated, Doctors found the hysterectomy to be very lucrative. Open surgical procedures were replaced by laparoscopic, faster recovery procedures. Hernia repair with surgical mesh became the norm, because doctors no longer have surgical skills to perform a traditional hernia repair.

First came synthetic mesh for hernia repair. Next came the Vaginal Prolift, Anterior and Posterior Lifts, and Bladder Suspension with surgical mesh kits.
Men’s and Women’s bodies are now enslaved to chronic pain and irreversible complications because the commercialization of mesh kits has replaced good surgical skills.

Let’s work together to stop the use of petroleum based synthetic surgical meshes in humans.

Let’s stop the commercialization of surgical mesh and mesh kits.

Let’s return to the answer: Truth in Medicine!

Want to discover more?

Stop, look and listen to Truth In Medicine! See my video clip as televised on WPLG Channel 10 News in Miami, Florida at http://local10.com/video/17492050/index.html

PREPARE FOR THE FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE!

DOCTORS AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES HAVE STRUCK A DEAL!


DOCTORS DON’T ASK….PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES DON’T TELL!!



Sweet Deal for the Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies…a NIGHTMARE FOR

YOU. You are the patient, who has a problem from mesh, Doctor says it’s not so.

You become invisible…doctor after doctor after doctor denies it’s the mesh, saying

they never had a problem with mesh. “All my mesh surgeries are perfect. Must be

something wrong with you…or your mind. Here take this prescription for Morphine.”

It must be a script…the answer is always the same no matter who your doctor is, or

more likely, was. You know you are never going back to that quack.

You are Eve and have just eaten Satan’s apple. You have just eaten the forbidden

fruit, “medical mesh.” Except the tree of knowledge of mesh is only evil…there’s no

good side to it! You’re done….forget your life as you knew it! You become invisible.

You become the victim of Frankenstein doctors who remove parts of you, cut your

nerves, disfigure and mutilate you inside, all the while telling you they will stop the pain.

Yeah right!! You become the walking wounded. AND INVISIBLE!

AND THE DEAL WORKS….THEY DON’T GET SUED!

DON’T ASK! DON’T TELL!

WORKS FOR THE DOCTORS AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES…

BUT FORGET YOU!

LIGHTS, CAMERA . . . ACTION!

WOMEN UNITE!

Now is your chance to stand up and shine like a star!

Has your life and body been irrevocably changed (and not in a good way) by the Gynecare TVT System?

Tell it to the judge!

Stand up in a court of law and tell it like it is. I'm calling on all women who have been injured by this product and procedure to speak their piece.

Stand up and be counted! Let's unite to make certain no other innocent person has to suffer in pain for the rest of their lives because of a product and procedure that should not even be in the marketplace.

My lawsuit is the ideal platform from which to strike a blow at the company that manufactures and distributes the Gynecare TVT System.

I have filed a product liability lawsuit against Ethicon, Inc, Gynecare and Johnson & Johnson in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Lana C. Keeton, Plaintiff Pro Se vs. Ethicon, Inc. (d/b/a Gynecare Worldwide) and Johnson & Johnson.

It is set for trial for October 1, 2007.

I need your help. Will you, and anyone else reading this with problems from the Gynecare TVT tape, please testify at trial? We have to help each other to stop this from happening to other women.

Please send me your contact info: name, e-mail address and phone number to:

Lana Keeton
Miami, Florida

lana@lanakeeton.com

August 17, 2007 is the deadline for my witness list, so please contact me now, or I will not be able to put you on the witness stand to tell your story.

A huge issue for all women, this procedure, if done at all, should only be done by an experienced urogynecologist. The procedure is blind. The doctor sticks a needle into your vagina and brings it out through the abdominal skin. They then look through a cystoscopy to make sure it is not in your bladder. The only thing they know from this, is that it is (problably) not in your bladder. No one knows where that tape is once it is inside of you.

That is, unless you have problems from it, of course. Problems that includes cutting into your bladder, your vagina, your urethra. Then, believe me, you definitely know where it is. You can feel it hurting you. At the same time, however, your doctor still does not know where the tape is for sure.

The Gynecare TVT System and its TVT Device (Prolene mesh tape) are inherently defective for more than one reason.

1. The tape itself has abrasive edges that cut human tissue. Sensitive, living tissue in organs like the bladder, the vagina, the urethra. It is a process that will not stop unless your doctor surgically intervenes in some manner.

I have reports from an expert witness that the edges of the tape are defective. Please contact me at miamiblog@bellsouth.net if you would like me to send you the information.

2. The plastic sheaths that cover the tape for the purpose of implanting it in your body have to be pulled out after the tape is put inside you. Any movement of that tape after implantation is undesirable.

3. There is much more....



This has been a long arduous painful process for me. I hope I will be able to help other women not to suffer as I have. Please contact me.

Peace and Blessings,

Lana

CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

I was an experiment.

I was research.

I am one of Johnson and Johnson's guinea pigs.

No amount of money will ever pay for the damage Johnson and Johnson intentionally perpetrated on me.

They knew when they put the Gynecare TVT Sling into the marketplace, it would harm me! They fully intended to harm me and thousands more in the name of the almighty dollar.

Johnson and Johnson has not taken the Hippocratic Oath. Doctors have taken the Hippocratic Oath which states: "First do no harm . . ."

Johnson and Johnson deliberately put a medical device into the stream of commerce that they knew without a doubt would harm someone. Their attitude?

“Oh, you’re just part of a very low percentage…less than 1% will be harmed.”

Guess again! Did you know that 1% of a million consumers is ten thousand consumers? That's an unacceptable number of women. Are they kidding? For each and every one of those ten thousand consumers, it is 100%.

I repeat, it is 100%....one hundred percent! That’s 10,000 families of those 10,000 consumers whose lives will be impacted.

Not to mention the 10,000 doctors whose careers and personal lives are also put at risk. All because doctors took the Hippocratic Oath while Johnson and Johnson did not!

In their rush to the marketplace without clinical trials on medical devices, Johnson and Johnson is physically harming people, destroying their lives, and flooding the court system with lawsuits. They can afford it. They have lawyers who can afford to wait it out in court with countless delays for years while the injured struggle to survive the damage. There is a law regarding truth in lending. There needs to be a law regarding truth in medical devices.

Johnson and Johnson needs to change their credo which says, “Research must be carried on, innovative programs developed and mistakes paid for.”

OUR CREDO
by Johnson and Johnson

We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nurses and patients, to the mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services. In meeting their needs, everything we do must be of high quality. We must constantly strive to reduce our costs in order to maintain reasonable prices. Customers' orders must be serviced promptly and accurately. Our suppliers and distributors must have an opportunity to make a fair profit.

We are responsible to our employees, the men and women who work with us throughout the world. Everyone must be considered as an individual. We must respect their dignity and recognize their merit. They must have a sense of security in their jobs. Compensation must be fair and adequate, and working conditions clean, orderly and safe. We must be mindful of ways to help our employees fulfill their family responsibilities. Employees must feel free to make suggestions and complaints. There must be equal opportunity for employment, development and advancement for those qualified. We must provide competent management, and their actions must be just and ethical.

We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well. We must be good citizens – support good works and charities and bear our fair share of taxes. We must encourage civic improvements and better health and education. We must maintain in good order the property we are privileged to use, protecting the environment and natural resources.

Our final responsibility is to our stockholders. Business must make a sound profit. We must experiment with new ideas. Research must be carried on, innovative programs developed and mistakes paid for. New equipment must be purchased, new facilities provided and new products launched. Reserves must be created to provide for adverse times. When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.

In other words, harm the consumer as long as the stockholders realize their fair return!