DR. HENRY JENNY WRITES BLISTERING LETTER ABOUT SILICONE IMPLANTS.
(The following letter has been edited by adding Angies' comments to Dr. Jennys letter....nothing has been removed from Dr. Jennys' but Angie has added comments she believes to be true from conversations and observations. Dr.Jenny is not responsible for additions made to his letter....and all CAPITAL EMPHASIS IS MADE BY ANGIE
TO HELP THE READER.....and may or may not reflect the view of the original document)
Dr Jenny is the inventor of "the first and original saline implant",
he sold the patents to a mfg.
....In his practice, he lived in Palm Springs,California.
....Many clients were Las Vegas show girls...
when SILICONE INJECTIONS WERE ILLEGAL in the states...MANY WOMEN HAD THE INJECTIONS DONE IN NEARBY MEXICO....A FEW HOURS AWAY.....
THE INJECTIONS WERE NOT ILLEGAL IN MEXICO AND THEY WERE CHEAPER THAN IMPLANTS.
A NOTE ABOUT INJECTIONS
ANGIE HAD THIS DONE.
SHE WENT TO REAL PLASTIC SURGEON IN MEXICO.
THIS WAS NOT AN EVIL MAN AND HE MEANT NO HARM.
THE SILICONE WAS MADE BY DOW CHEMICAL. HIGH GRADE MEDICAL.
IT WAS PURCHASED IN LOS ANGELES FROM A LAB THAT TOM TOLCOTT VERIFIED....HE WORKED FOR DOW AND KNEW THE ADDRESS (see tolcotts reports...Angie met him too)
NOW THE FIRST MIXTURES OF SILICONES AND PLURAL IS CORRECT, THERE WAS NOT ONE SILICONE BUT MANY SILICONE MIXTURES.
LATER THE MIXTURES WERE ADULTERATED BY ANYONE WITH THE CHEMICALS AND SOME BARRELLS IN THEIR GARAGES.
NO ONE KNOWS HOW MANY OR WHAT WAS MADE. MANY PROBLEMS CAME LATER AS THESE FILTHY IMPLANTS WERE MADE .....AND ALSO....PLASTIC SURGEONS REQUESTED DOW TO CHANGE THE "FEEL" OF THE GEL.
THEY ADDED MANY CHEMICALS AND
ANGIE HAD HEAVY METAL POISONING OF PLATINUM,THERE WAS NO PLATINUM IN THE FAMILY....THEN RESEARCH REVEALED DOW HAD PUT PLATINUM IN THEIR FIRST MIXTURES.
ANGIE GOT PURE FINE THICK SILICONE
AND THE MEXICAN DOCTOR HAD INJECTED HIS OWN FACE WRINKLES. DOW LIED TO HIM TOO.
THE DR. PUT TWO QUARTS INTO ANGIES CHEST IN 30 MINUTES.
HE TOLD ANGIE TO GO HOME AND WEAR A TIGHT BRA TIL "IT SET UP"
THIS WAS WRONG...IT WAS THICK BUT IT DID FLOW AROUND ANGIES CHEST....UP TO HER NECK AND DOWN BELOW HER BELLY BUTTON. SHE SLEPT AFTER FIVE DAYS ON HER SIDE,BUT THE SILICONES WERE STILL MOVING.....THIS WAS NOT DISCOVERED TIL 20 YEARS LATER WHEN A TOP SURGEON....NOT A PLASTIC SURGEON OPENED ANGIE UP. THE MEXICAN DOCTOR HAS PROBABLY DIED OR LOST ALL HIS FACE.
THE BODY SURROUNDS THE OFFENDING LIQUID...AND WALLS IT OFF....IT DOESN'T "SET UP" LIKE THE MEXICAN DOCTOR THOUGHT. IT'S THE BODY THAT STOPS ITS MIGRATION.
...so Dr. Jenny saw many women who had this done and he operated on Las Vegas showgirls and the new boom (no pun intended) of topless dancers and table waitress's that started in San Francisco.
Dr.Jenny removed lots of free silicones that were injected into these entertainers etc.
BUT ASIDE FROM THAT EXPERIENCE....HE SAW SILICONE GLOBULES IN HIS OWN RESEARCH COMING FROM SILICONE GEL IMPLANTS.
HE SAW UNDER THE MICROSCOPE PARTICLES FLOATING IN THE BLOOD STREAM OF WOMEN...he had slides and took them to prove to the F.D.A. in the 1960's...and they rejected him and his conclusions.
the F.D.A. WAS "IN BED WITH DOW CHEMICAL AND JUST TO BLAME AS ANY ONE"...SO MANY ARE TO BLAME....THE TRAIL IS CONVOLUTED.....AND THE TRUE FACTS ARE LOST FOREVER. IN THIS WORLD.
IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT DR.JENNY INVENTED THE SALINE IMPLANT.
He invented the saline implant...refused to implant silicone....he predicted a "nightmare in 25 years"...he retired and moved to Europe.
When the breast implant attorneys contacted him.....he had no knowlege of the problems that had surfaced in the USA...
BUT HIS PREDICTION "HAD COME TRUE" AND HE AGREED TO BE A WITNESS FOR THE WOMEN..
...BECAUSE....
.....he had no MEDICAL board to please,
.....no busines needs to remain an active plastic surgeon,
.....he had no bills to pay by operating on more women.......
.....no license to defend...he was rich..he didn't need to operate or "play the game"
...he didn't need the bribes he saw his colleagues take from Dow. One particular Dr. agreed with Dr.Jenny, implants were no good....
but Dow made this Dr. an "offer he couldn't refuse" he became a paid consultant for Dow for a fee of one million $$$$$ per year....just to appear on talk shows and news shows and tell everyone "that implants were perfectly safe".
....Dr.Jenny had a pure motive to tell the truth,
....he was there in the beginning,
....he knew where the "BODIES WERE BURIED",
..... in this case the culprits that made illegal silicone implants and unlicensed implants in their garages....were a bunch of CAR DEALERS THAT WENT INTO THE IMPLANT BUSINESS. AND MANY WOMEN HAVE THESE IMPLANTS....THEY WERE EXTREMELY MARKETED AND ARE SOLD TODAY.
....he knew these scoundrels who brought out the "idea of big boobs" EASY,SIMPLE AND SAFE...and they marketed themuntested and nonregulated by the F.D.A. to nations of eager innocent women.
.....he is proof that the F.D.A. WAS warned,
.....he showed them proof,his slides,
.....he showed them.....the F.D.A. was warned in the late 60"s and so he became a defense witness in the 90's. His prediction had come true.
......and he was booked on TELEVISION...LARRY KING!
JENNY JONES wanted him...."you're our man,"she told him,then never called again. You see Jenny Jones would lose her sponsors if she persisted. You can't
blame them....the media is held hostage by Dow dolllars. But if it is ever declared
illegal like tobacco then you'll see many many exposees. Once it is illegal the news will cover it. Incidently the p.r.firm for Dow is same for agent orange and tobacco.
BUT AD MANAGERS AND DOW MONEY PRESSURED THE SHOWS TO TAKE HIM OFF the lineup at the very last minute Dr. Jenny had flown in for Larry KIng.
....Dow makes many products for the home...they threatened to withdraw their sponsorship of the shows...millions of ad revenue if Dr.Jenny was on as a guest.
HE WAS READY TO TELL THE WORLD BUT THE THE DOW PEOPLE HAVE $ POWER SO HE WAS.... NOT....... ON NATIONAL TV.
EVEN THOUGH HE HAD THE BOOKINGS....
AT THE LAST MINUTE HE WAS YANKED...from the show. C.N.N didn't
even pay for his ticket til he persued them.
Angie met Dr. Jenny as he was a speaker in seminars in Florida and told his story to thousands of women who wondered WHAT TO DO .... he was a wonderful man...FULL OF KNOWLEGE FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE. He saw Angies photos of the 15 pounds of hard silicone impregnated flesh that used to be Angies'
body. He said "he had hundreds of pictures exacly like that" This was unusual as not one plastic surgeon in Forida had ever seen or operated on an injected patient.
THAT'S WHY DR. JENNY IS SO UNIQUE,THAT'S WHY YOU SHOULD PAY
ATTENTION TO HIM....AND BUY HIS BOOK......SILICONEGATE. HE IS WONDERFUL.
HERE IS HIS LETTER......
TO A DR. OF PLASTIC SURGERY ...WHO DID SELL OUT AND SAID ALL WAS WELL WITH IMPLANTS...
EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS BOMBARDED WITH WOMENS' FILES WHO WERE SICK...SHE IGNORED THEIR PLEAS AND TESTIMONY. HER NAME IS DR. ANGELL
YES, SHE IS A WOMAN,YET SHE CARED NOT ENOUGH FOR WOMEN WHO WROTE HER. THE BIGGEST FEAR OF MOST DOCTORS IS "THE RIDICULE OF THEIR PEERS". Dr. Jenny sites the politics of medicine is a cancer on society". P.S. if you want good results get out of the town where your Dr.operated on you....never return to he or she and don't go to anyone in their town. They all know each other.
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NOW HERE IS DR.JENNYS' LETTER
February 22, 1998
Marcia Angell, M.D. Editor-In-Chief
New England Journal of Medicine
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA 02115-6094
Dear Dr. Angell;
You first drew my attention with an editorial "Breast Implants-Protection or Paternalism?" It appeared in Volume 326, Number 25, published on June 18, 1992 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
You based your comments on an article by Jack C. Fisher "The Silicone Controversy-When will Science Prevail?" and an article by Hans Berkel, "Breast Augmentation: A Risk Factor for Breast Cancer?"
Jack C. Fisher, former head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of California in San Diego managed to publish his unscientific and totally erroneous comments in the NEJM with your endorsement.
In a deposition Denise Dunleavy [NY attorney] immortalized Fisher's ignorance on the subject.
(note: Angie met Denise Dunleavy and her team,,,they won every case they took against Baxter labs...they had the inside dope and the horrors from the companys' own materials. Memoes and people on the assembly line had to testify)
to be sued by Dunleavy...meant YOU LOST....
she came to Angie's home town in Orlando Florida and waged war for Melinda Barrows in federal court...
Mrs.Barrows was a young beautiful model ...who made appx.five thousand dollars for a shoot in the ASIAN MARKET AS WHOLESOME AMERICAN GIRL. She was a print model not a runway model.
.....and she used her money for flying lessons and she became a licensed airplane pilot.....her goal for her lifes' work after modeling.
.....she did not work nude,she was the "all american girl" and had implants to fit her body size....she was told they were safe and they got hard so she returned to her surgeon regularly to have the capsules broken by the "squeeze method" she began to get sick and forgetful and many
other symptoms...she related to travel and foreign countries....newly married....she had begun to fall ill.
....she suffered horrible low self esteem because she lost so much weight she looked anorexic or she looked like she had aids...and she was embaressed to be seen in public..she had many symptoms...the dreams of her young life were crushed...she had worked as a model to pay for her flying license and training and she had passed....she was on her way as one of the few captains.... a female commercial airline pilot.
.....she was young and could have had a career for years worth millions of dollars.
Now she had memory problems.....very dangerous for a pilot...she couldn't move her arms over her head to work controls,
...she couldn't eat or sleep and was constantly fatigued.....she was deeply depressed...as a newly wed she couldn't clean or cook for her husband..she was an invalid. As mentioned she was so thin and drawn....she looked like aids victim and she was housebound by embaressment.
now she was doomed! NEVER to fly or model or have children.....she won 750,000 in Federal court from a judge, the defendants appealed, but lost.
Angie was in the courthouse every day, morning til AFTER closing...talking to Dunleavy in the ladies room and lunch with the expert Doctor witnesses,
....watching the evidence roll out....she saw the records and the Baxter company goof ups...documented by their own managers....all in the trial...the Baxter people tried to settle "as was their custom"....pay the woman and put a gag order on her.....for at least ten years....UNBEKNOWEST TO THE PUBLIC IMPLANT MANUFACTURERS HAVE PAID MILLIONS FOR YEARS TO IMPLANT WOMEN AND CONTINUED TO MARKET IMPLANTS.
........ BUT THE VICTIMS WERE UNDER PENALTY TO KEEP QUIET AND THE RECORDS SEALED .....NOW THOSE OLD RECORDS ARE PUBLIC PROPERTY....
....BUT MELINDA WOULD NOT take hush money...
SHE WANTED THEM TO BE SHOWN FOR THE CRUEL LIARS THAT THEY WERE...
AS USUAL....DUNLEAVY WON....IN FLORIDA...BUT SHE WAS FROM NEW YORK AND HER EXPERTS AND HER TEAM HAD TO FIGHT AN "OUT OF TOWN CASE. DUNLEAVY WANTED TO WIN MILLIONS FOR MELINDA....and would never have taken the case for 750,000....the costs of commute and expert Drs....did not pay off for Melinda or Dunleavy....she said she would never fight again without a jury trial.
but when MELINDA won....not one word was in the media or the news anywhere in town or national news....750,000 was not enough to pay for her life goals and a life traded for pain. The trial took one year for the judge to return a verdict..... after all the evidence was in and everyone had gone home. The attorney's normal fee is one third....but they earned it....in fact they probably lost money. They paid for the Drs. to fly in....the Drs. charge to read the case $500 an hour before they get there, plus travel and the testimony, you have to pay for them to close their offices. The attorneys went home for the holidays....it was awful.....the boxes of papers were about 50 or 60 that held the evidence and they had to be stored in safes in the courthouse every eve and unpacked every morn.
....Melinda was in her mid 20's then, the money never could pay for her life and no one blew the whistle on Baxter or covered the trial....in the media....no one cared but implant people.
Angie was there for months...and reported to ILENA'S SUPPORT AND DISCUSSION group....but the victory was HOLLOW.
(back to jenny letter he writes)
As to Berkel he was fired within less than a year from his position as the board's research director.
You quote an ASPRS (American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons) statistic and qualify it as "The best information we have are polls indicating that more than 90 percent of the women with breast implants are satisfied with the results.
" You totally ignored the fact that: less than 500 of the 100,000 women receiving a questionnaire actually answered.
(Angie on the evidence on the testing)
In the BARROWS trial...Dunleavy exposed the bogus research that the manufacturers engineered....
this is how they fooled the public.
they sent out questionaires to many women but the first two or three questions disqualified them from the survey or the counting,
......for instance "do you have FIBROMYALGIA"...all implants cause fibromyalgia sooner or later....just a matter of time.
almost all women have it.... or will get a diagnosis of fibromayalgia at the time of survey....now they might say silicone....but it's easier to put fibromyalgia on the chart.
THIS ONE QUESTION KNOCKED OUT THE MAJORITY OF THE WOMEN FROM THE SURVEY....BOGUS TEST.
......."How long have you had your implants?" no one was questioned that had them for 10 years or 15 years..when most problems and symptoms appear,
....the time line stopped at seven or four years..the facts are in a transcript it was four or seven?
.....of course the symptoms don't show til about 10 years....another beginning question "have you had more than one set of implants",
most women have....on the advice of their plastic surgeon....many had three....four....five....one woman had 30.
Jenny Jones the celebrity, had seven.
Another question...."have you had cancer"....all these questions....knocked the questionaires out until only about 450 women were counted in as surveyed.
...but the press release said...."100,000 women tested and no proof that implants cause any more disease than normal population"....they DID NOT TELL THAT ONLY 450 ANSWERS CAME BACK....THAT IS HOW STATISTICS CAN BE SKEWED TO FIT THE MAKERS OF THE TESTS....AND MAYO CLINIC AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY....DID THIS FOR DOW.
(back to Jenny letter)
Since 1992 you have played the role of a world-renowned expert on the subject of silicone gel-filled breast implants.
Together with Fisher you have popularized terms such as "junk science" and "junk scientists." You have publicly accused plaintiff's expert witnesses of being "prostitutes."
What would you call defense expert witnesses Dr. Warren Blackburn, a toxico-immunologist, hired for $750,000, Dr. Rosenberg, a neuro-toxicologist being paid $500,000 and Dr. Bruce Kelman, another toxico-immunologist, receiving $300,000 for services rendered in the case of Mahlum versus Dow Chemical Corporation?
My concern for women with silicone gel-filled breast implants started in 1966 when during an explantation of an intact silicone gel-filled breast implant, covered with seeping liquid silicone,...
" I asked myself: * Where does the liquid silicone go in a woman with silicone gel-filled implants?"
"What does the liquid silicone do when it gets there?"
"What can we as Plastic Surgeons do to remove it, IF IT SHOULD prove to be detrimental to their health?"
(Angie.... note this is when dr. Jenny invented an implant filled with saline.)
I have received no remuneration for neither my research nor for warning my colleagues and the manufacturers worldwide as well as the FDA.
I wrote and self-published my book, "Silicone-Gate, or The Scandal Behind Breast Implants" together with my wife without an financial assistance or encouragement from attorneys.
Defense attorneys have deposed me during more than 120 hours.
When presiding over a Daubert hearing in New York, Judge Weinstein approved my testimony as an EXPERT WITNESS and found it to be "devastating to the defense."
Would you still call ME a prostitute?
Do you have the courage to come forward with all your second-hand knowledge and testify on behalf of the manufacturers?
Are you willing to sign an affidavit under oath stating that as the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine you have never had any personal or financial interest in authors submitting a scientific paper to you for publication?
Can you tell us WHO reviewed the above mentioned articles and would you explain to us how the peer reviewers of such a prestigious medical Journal missed gross errors in Fisher's article that any second year CHEMISTRY STUDENT could have identified?
The second time......your name drew my attention was your editorial, "Losing Weight-An Ill-Fated New Year's Resolution."
You have now become the self-made expert on obesity!
Dr. Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General,
JoAnn E. Manson, M.D., Ph.D. of Harvard Medical School
as well as Theodore B. Van Itallie, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Columbia University
state that "the editorial is at odds with the totality of scientific evidence concerning the health risks of obesity."
Apparently,they don't think you have any background in obesity research.
Do you have any such background in liquid silicone?
I am sending you a signed copy of my book for basic education.
I hope that EVEN YOU....could one day become a scientifically minded editor who would avoid politics, which in my opinion is the cancer of society.
Will you stop calling us prostitutes?
There is an old America saying: "IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE."
Sincerely,
Henry Jenny, M.D.
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