Spine Scam
Spine Scam is a hard-hitting medical drama that pulls back the curtain on the billion-dollar spine surgery industry, where profit often comes before patients. Dr. Ulysses Bennett is a talented young n…
Spine Scam
Spine Scam is a hard-hitting medical drama that pulls back the curtain on the billion-dollar spine surgery industry, where profit often comes before patients. Dr. Ulysses Bennett is a talented young neurosurgeon on track to become one of the top spine specialists in the country. Mentored by senior surgeons who drive luxury cars and enjoy VIP treatment from implant manufacturers, Bennett is taught that spinal fusion surgery is the gold standard for back pain - and the fastest path to prestige and wealth. At the same time, Sydney Westerhaus, a driven journalist living with crippling back pain after a car accident, is pressured by multiple surgeons to undergo invasive spinal fusion with only a coin-flip chance of success. As Bennett performs more and more fusions, he begins to notice a disturbing pattern: many patients aren't getting better. Some are getting worse. When he discovers research on an alternative, less invasive endoscopic laser disc repair procedure, he starts to question everything he's been taught. His curiosity puts him at odds with his department and the powerful medical device company Globazon, which has been bribing surgeons with luxury trips, consulting contracts, and hidden royalties in exchange for using their implants in as many surgeries as possible. Sydney, desperate for relief and deeply distrustful of the system, ultimately chooses the laser procedure and experiences a dramatic recovery. Empowered by her own outcome and armed with Bennett's growing doubts about traditional fusion surgery, she launches an investigation into the financial relationships between surgeons, hospitals, and Globazon. What she uncovers is a sweeping network of kickbacks, conflicts of interest, and unnecessary surgeries performed on vulnerable patients who were never told about safer alternatives. As the scandal explodes into public view, senior surgeons face medical board hearings, Globazon fights to contain the fallout, and Bennett is forced to choose between his career and his conscience. Spine Scam exposes the shocking reality of how spine surgery can be sold like a product - and celebrates the courage of those willing to risk everything to put patients first.
Spine Scam
Drama
Film Details
Spine Scam is a hard-hitting medical drama that pulls back the curtain on the billion-dollar spine surgery industry, where profit often comes before patients. Dr. Ulysses Bennett is a talented young neurosurgeon on track to become one of the top spine specialists in the country.
Mentored by senior surgeons who drive luxury cars and enjoy VIP treatment from implant manufacturers, Bennett is taught that spinal fusion surgery is the gold standard for back pain - and the fastest path to prestige and wealth. At the same time, Sydney Westerhaus, a driven journalist living with crippling back pain after a car accident, is pressured by multiple surgeons to undergo invasive spinal fusion with only a coin-flip chance of success. As Bennett performs more and more fusions, he begins to notice a disturbing pattern: many patients aren't getting better.
Some are getting worse. When he discovers research on an alternative, less invasive endoscopic laser disc repair procedure, he starts to question everything he's been taught. His curiosity puts him at odds with his department and the powerful medical device company Globazon, which has been bribing surgeons with luxury trips, consulting contracts, and hidden royalties in exchange for using their implants in as many surgeries as possible.
Sydney, desperate for relief and deeply distrustful of the system, ultimately chooses the laser procedure and experiences a dramatic recovery. Empowered by her own outcome and armed with Bennett's growing doubts about traditional fusion surgery, she launches an investigation into the financial relationships between surgeons, hospitals, and Globazon. What she uncovers is a sweeping network of kickbacks, conflicts of interest, and unnecessary surgeries performed on vulnerable patients who were never told about safer alternatives.
As the scandal explodes into public view, senior surgeons face medical board hearings, Globazon fights to contain the fallout, and Bennett is forced to choose between his career and his conscience. Spine Scam exposes the shocking reality of how spine surgery can be sold like a product - and celebrates the courage of those willing to risk everything to put patients first..