Hidden Reports Masked The Scope Of Widespread Harm From Faulty Heart Device

(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News)

Faced with the possibility that a bout of abnormal heartbeats could end his life, in 2006, Dr. Marc Sicklick had a small device implanted in his chest that would shock it back into rhythm. Soon he would struggle with another life-or-death choice: whether to remove the Sprint Fidelis, which was deemed dangerous and recalled in 2007 after it had been implanted in hundreds of thousands of patients.  Continue reading article here…

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