Starting in 2013 more than a hundred thousand women received calls about the urgent need to have surgically implanted pelvic mesh removed from their lower abdomens. These calls came not from doctors, hospitals, or mesh manufacturers, but from a large, noisy room a few miles from Fort Lauderdale’s white sand beaches. Right off the major throughway of I-95, at the plastic-sounding 1000 Corporate Drive, towered a gleaming seven-story, mirrored glass-and-steel building surrounded by palm trees, a lagoon, and plenty of asphalt. With its marbled atrium and floor-to-ceiling windows, it looked like the natural habitat of the midlevel bankers, salesmen, and project managers who own silk plants, live-tweet Tony Robbins events, and frequent Delta Sky Club lounges.