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Episode: Con Men, Call Centers And Rogue Doctors Elizabeth Chamblee Burch's The Pain Brokers
Description: Legal scholar Elizabeth Chamblee Burch focuses on three women with mesh implants who were targeted, manipulated, and violatedâat their own expense. Through the searing stories of Sharon Gore, Barbara Shepard, and Jerri Plummerâmiddle-aged women separated by geography, education, and socioeconomic factorsâBurch sheds light on not only the injustices of mass torts, which she describes as âpersonal-injury litigation on steroids,â but also the indignities endemic in womenâs healthcare.  Drawing on more than 150 interviews conducted over two years, backed by 209,000 pages of documentation, THE PAIN BROKERS is at once a critical work of public service journalism and a real-life thriller...