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"We have already found dozens of people across the country whose lives have been devastated by these pain pumps," says attorney Ted Meadows of the Montgomery, Alabama-based law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles and spokesperson for a group of attorneys taking on new plaintiffs to hold the manufacturers accountable. "These are supposed to be routine outpatient procedures, but the patients often endure several more surgeries and most will eventually need complete shoulder replacement."

Meadows and the other attorneys expect hundreds of individuals across the country will now come forward with their own stories of ongoing pain and suffering they have experienced after using one of these devices. Here are just a few of the many stories that they have discovered so far:

-- "I use to find a great sense of satisfaction in helping others in need

of rehabilitation," says Kate Baker, a 28-year old physical therapist

from Raleigh, N.C., who used a pain pump after surgery to repair an

unstable shoulder. "Now I can no longer do the job I loved because it

requires physical strength and abilities I no longer have."

-- "My dad had dreams of retiring soon," says Travis Quimby, a 26-year

old from Dayton, Ore., who used a pain pump after shoulder surgery to

repair a football injury in high school. "I always imagined I would

someday take over the family poultry farm. Now I can't put in a full

day's work and my dad has had to hire someone else. It breaks my

heart to think I am letting him down."

-- "I use to play softball at a very competitive level," says Jessica<
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