Patients' perspectives on quality and patient safety failures: lessons learned from an inquiry into transvaginal mesh in Australia. May 8, 2024

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patients-perspectives-quality-and-patient-safety-failures-lessons-learned-inquiry Patients' perspectives on quality and patient safety failures: lessons learned from an inquiry into transvaginal mesh in Australia. Motamedi M, Degeling C, M. Carter S. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024;24(1):436. Women patients experience medical gaslighting wherein clinicians, policy makers, or the public do not believe their lived experiences. This article details more than 400 accounts submitted by women who were harmed by transvaginal mesh, and how their harm was exacerbated by dismissals by their physicians and regulatory bodies.