THE BLEEDING EDGE Pulls Back the Curtain on the Medical Tech Industry

T. M. Weedon
Sep 8, 2018 · 3 min read

Kirby Dick’s new documentary, The Bleeding Edge, opens with unnerving B-roll of eerily sleek medical devices: monitors, joint replacements, robotic arms ready to make an incision. Meanwhile, Scott Whitaker, the CEO of AdvaMed, the largest medical technologies lobbying firm in the U.S., intones with TedTalk optimism, “What if, by 2050, we have micro-laboratories implanted…

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T. M. Weedon

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Film & Media Commentary. Regular contributor to the Santa Barbara Independent. Letterbox profile: https://letterboxd.com/tweedon/

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