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F.D.A. Panel Weighs Complaints on Essure Contraceptive Implant

Quoted: Several of the panelists questioned why it was so difficult for women to find a doctor who was trained in removing the device. Many of the women, in desperation, simply had a hysterectomy, which Dr. Charles Coddington, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said was “like shooting flies with a cannon.”