Patients given potentially dangerous implants

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BBC news should be ashamed of themselves. Millions of patients have medical devices such as pacemakers implanted that save their lives & work perfectly without fault for the entirety of that persons life. Now, those millions of people are going to be worrying about their devices!

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WELL THIS WAS A BIG SURPRISE, SCAMMING THE PATIENTS AGAIN!!

Absolute fear-mongering tripe. Thought you were better than this

FibroidNetwork Absolutely shocking but not surprised 😡 I've been raising concerns about medicaldevice morcellation of presumed fibroids which is spreading undiagnosed sarcomas & occultcancer since 2016 after my mum died NICEcomms & RCObsGyn but no body seems to Care 😡 veryconcerning

Nationalized medicine at its finest.

They are not ‘ending up’ in patients. This is not some sort of mystery. Results are deliberately being ignored so that big Pharma gets richer

BBC rolling out project fear 2. No one is that stupid to believe it.

Food allergies and now medical equipment poor British standards thats what the EUs about

Yup, a regulatory shake up is badly needed.

God, have the EU not taught us anything ? How can this happen when we are still in that magical club of all things good ?

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