Episode
60 Minutes: 100,000 Women, Saving a Generation, Shock Therapy
Overview
Gynecological Mesh: The medical device that has 100,000 women suing; then, Bill Whitaker reports on how the opioid epidemic is leaving grandparents to raise grandchildren; and, is shock therapy making a comeback?
Details
- Series
- 60 Minutes
- Season
- Season 50
- Episode
- Episode 35
- Air date
- 2018-05-13
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
100,000 Women, Saving a Generation, Shock Therapy is Episode 35 in Season 50 of 60 Minutes. It aired on 2018-05-13. The runtime is 44 min.
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