Synopsis
The Bleeding Edge (2018) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Kirby Dick and investigating how medical devices reach American patients without clinical testing.
A legal shortcut known as the 510(k) pathway allows manufacturers to bypass trials by arguing their product resembles something already approved. The film follows several patients who felt the consequences: a woman whose contraceptive implant caused chronic pain, a man with a metal-on-metal hip replacement that shed toxic particles into surrounding tissue, and others harmed by a surgical robot. Dick, who previously examined institutional failure in The Invisible War, applies the same forensic method: real people, documented records, and a regulatory system that keeps producing the same outcome.
Watch The Bleeding Edge (2018) online on iFILM.
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