The Mesh Mill: How Scammers Took Advantage of Women's Pain

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Audiochuck | Campside Media

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Shortly after Christmas, Sharon gets a terrifying call. A stranger tells her the pelvic mesh inside her body has been recalled. It's a “ticking time bomb," and she needs emergency surgery to remove it. So Sharon flies to Florida. What she’s walking into is a scam embedded in America’s mass tort machine: stolen medical data, a call center, and huge profits powered by the pain of women like Sharon.

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0:00.0	Campside Media
0:02.9	Hello?
0:06.2	What is this?
0:06.9	What do you want me to say?
0:08.7	Oh, it's just a...
0:10.0	Camelian.
0:11.2	Camillion Weekly.
0:12.8	Oh.
0:15.0	In the waning days of 2013,
0:18.1	Sharon Gore was in the throngs of Christmas preparation when her phone rang.
0:22.6	That call was frightening.
0:25.5	Well, it looks at frightening on the front end.
0:27.2	I shouldn't say that.
0:28.2	On the front end, it was just, oh, wow, something's wrong.
0:33.3	Sharon lives in South Carolina, not far from Myrtle Beach.
0:37.9	Because this individual provided me with a great deal of detail about a surgery that I had had.
0:46.5	This was somewhat unnerving to hear all the details this person on the phone was relaying to her.
0:52.8	The matters they were discussing it happened a long time ago.
0:56.4	And I wasn't clear on all the details of my surgery
1:00.3	because it's a surgery.
1:02.0	You go to surgery and you count on the doctor
1:04.4	to do what they're supposed to do.
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