Lake Macquarie woman joins more than 1700 others for Senate inquiry on pelvic mesh

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated March 26 2019 - 8:30pm, first published May 29 2017 - 5:30am
Tears: Lake Macquarie woman Judy has suffered 14 years of severe mesh complications after surgery in 2003. Picture: Simone De Peak.
Tears: Lake Macquarie woman Judy has suffered 14 years of severe mesh complications after surgery in 2003. Picture: Simone De Peak.

JUDY* was implanted with a pelvic mesh device in Sydney in 2003 as two gynaecologists, including Newcastle’s Alan Hewson, wrote a paper warning doctors that the device she received “cannot be recommended”.

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