The Bleeding Edge

Jul 27, 2018

1h 39m

★ 6.8

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

Overview

Each year in the United States, unparalleled innovations in medical diagnostics, treatment, and technology hit the market. But when the same devices designed to save patients end up harming them, who is accountable?

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Chain Camera Pictures

Shark Island Productions

The Bleeding Edge Trailers

Cast

Himself - Diagnostic Radiologist

Robert Bridges

Herself - Essure contraceptive victim

Angie Firmalino

Herself

Rita Redberg

Himself - Orthopedic Surgeon

Stephen Tower

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0.0

Prête-moi ton docteur

Apr 15, 2024

No overview available.

6.0

Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

Mar 19, 1997

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.

6.8

The Widowmaker

Feb 27, 2015

Every minute of every year an American drops dead of a heart attack, hundreds of thousands without any warning or prior symptom. But these people could have been saved. The Widowmaker uncovers a chilling tale of greed, ego, and a conspiracy of silence around that most vulnerable of human organs - the heart.

6.4

Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1

Nov 16, 2011

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity, and justice after decades of top-secret human radiation experiments conducted on them by the U.S. government.

8.1

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

Oct 18, 2016

The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a billion-dollar, low-fat, food industry, as well as to statins, a drug that lower “bad cholesterol” levels, so it has became one of the most prescribed medicines in the world. But more and more researchers are openly questioning the mainstream opinions on cholesterol…

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Než přijde dítě

Jan 1, 1953

No overview available.

7.6

Les Fabuleux Pouvoirs de l'hypnose

Sep 16, 2017

More and more doctors and surgeons are using hypnosis as a supplement to anesthesia during surgery. Hypnosis is also gaining increasing recognition among conventional physicians, especially for anesthesia and pain treatment. Can it also help with psychological stress disorders such as trauma, phobias, addiction, depression or burnout?

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4.2

In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood, and Bioterrorism

Jan 1, 2007

Its hard to explain the full depth and breadth of the depravity of the pharmaceutical industry, the medical research industry, and the federal government. This film does a pretty good job. Hang on to your hat. The model for modern biological warfare was "discovered" during the conquest of the Americas and has been repeated over and over again.

0.0

Rx: The Quiet Revolution

Apr 2, 2015

How a patient-centered philosophy can improve outcomes and enrich the lives of patients.

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Služba člověku

Jan 1, 1951

No overview available.

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Ordinace na kolech

Jan 1, 1951

No overview available.

The Bleeding Edge

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