Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

The Pain Brokers' upcoming events!
I’m grateful for the chance to be in conversation with such thoughtful hosts, bookstores, and institutions over the next few months.
Hope to see some of you along the way!
More details via the host venues listed on the flyer.

Lauren Purdy and Beth Burch at a Federal Bar Association event in Jacksonville, Florida.

Yesterday was of those days that reminds me how worthwhile teaching is.
I’m an FSU Law alum, later taught at FSU, and now—years into my time at UGA Law—got to discuss The Pain Brokers with my former FSU student, Lauren Purdy, now an equity partner.
Public legal education matters!

The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory When: Thursday, February 5, 2026, Noon – 1:00 p.m....

Hi Jacksonville friends! I'll be in your neck of the woods on Thursday, February 5, talking about The Pain Brokers with the Federal Court Bar Association. I'd love to see you there. Here's a link to register: www.jaxfedbar.org/event/the-pa...

Congrats, Zach!!

One of the worst things I heard while researching The Pain Brokers was how often women felt invisible, like a number on a spreadsheet.
I talked with Court Accountability Network + @legalafmtn.bsky.social about what needs to change.
🎥 Full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjB2...

YouTube video by Legal AF United States Legal System's Dark Underbelly

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, University of Georgia School of Law professor and author, joins Court Accountability Action’s Darcy McConnell and Alyssa Bowen to discuss her new book The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory. Tune in below.

Podcast: The Pain Brokers The courts are supposed to help patients harmed by faulty medical products. Author Elizabeth Burch exposes how legal con men, rogue doctors and their financiers made things worse for patients.

Podcast alert 🎧
I joined journalist Merrill Goozner to talk about The Pain Brokers, the true story behind a lawsuit factory that treated women’s bodies like profit centers, and what it reveals about mass torts, medical harm, and the justice system.
Listen here 👉 gooznews.substack.com/p/podcast-th...

How A Weather “Wedge” Is Shaping Weekend Southern Ice Storm How a meteorological phenomenon known as "the wedge" is shaping a major ice storm in the U.S. South.

My 101 on how cold-air damming (aka "The Wedge") is shaping the Southern Ice Storm this weekend. Features my colleagues John Knox Pam Knox and Bradford Johnson, Ph.D.

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Books and games for winter storm prep.

Storm prep isn’t just supplies—it’s stories.
If you don’t have a hard copy of The Pain Brokers yet, you can listen to Audie Award–winning narrator Cassandra Campbell read it aloud. Sometimes a winter storm calls for being read a story. ❄️🎧
#WinterStormPrep #Audiobooks #ThePainBrokers #ReadingWeather

Thanks so much! Really happy to get these women’s stories out into the world.

I’m grateful to Law.com for this interview on The Pain Brokers—a book about pelvic mesh litigation and the mass tort machinery that profited from women’s pain.

The hardcover is just $6 on Amazon right now.
#ThePainBrokers #MassTorts #WomensHealth #LegalNonfiction #Justice

What Happens if an IUD Breaks? It’s rare. But some Paragard users are suing manufacturers for not properly warning patients and doctors of the risk.

The first bellwether trial in the Paragard IUD MDL starts today in the Northern District of Georgia. Here's a great overview of what it's about and what's at stake.

#WomensHealth #masstorts #MDL www.thecut.com/article/iud-...

Book clubs reading The Pain Brokers: I’m happy to join your discussion via Zoom for a Q&A on the reporting, the writing, and the women at the center of the book.
Just email me if you’d like to set it up.

$6.00!! Limited time. Get yours quick! 👇

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Packed rooms. Thoughtful questions. Real conversations about power, accountability, and the women at the center of this story. I couldn’t have asked for more.
If you’ve come out to an event, shared a post, recommended the book, bought a copy, or posted a review—thank you!

• Don Samuel, criminal defense attorney and truth-teller extraordinaire.
And thank you to my friends and students—past and present—who showed up to celebrate with me. There is no better reminder of why this work matters than talking about it with you. @ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social

🧵Debut week for The Pain Brokers has been a wonderful whirlwind!
Thank you to my brilliant conversation partners:
• Dr. Jon Peters of the Grady College of Journalism
• Judge Richard Story of the Northern District of Georgia

"You have a ticking time bomb in you."

I talk with Kate Powell about what happens behind the scenes of THE PAIN BROKERS, which is out now everywhere you buy books!

Full convo here: open.substack.com/pub/bethburc...

Want to know what really happens in Vegas when everyone in the #masstort industry convenes? Read THE PAIN BROKERS, but get a sneak peek via @slate.com.

Full read: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Here’s hoping!! Thanks so much!

PUB DAY for THE PAIN BROKERS! Come celebrate with me at the Athens-Clarke County Public Library Jan. 13, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. I'll talk with Dr. Jon Peters of @ugagrady.bsky.social & Ghost will be there with books for sale!
#ThePainBrokers #PubDay #TrueCrimeBooks #WomensHealth

Thanks so much for this review!

How Pelvic Mesh Scams and Predatory Loans Targeted Women A review of The Pain Brokers by Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Did You Read That DocuSign Before Clicking? These Women’s Stories Show Why You Should 

📚⚖️Elizabeth Chamblee Burch’s riveting “The Pain Brokers,” reveals the multi-million dollar scam hiding in the fine print.

@eburch.bsky.social
@attriabooks.bsky.social

🙏Thanks for ARC

#BookSky

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We need good eggs in the field! So happy to hear she's interested!

The Pain Brokers Selling the Dream meets Empire of Pain in this shocking, never-told-before story of three women caught in a web of telemarketing scammers, shady do...

That's the end of that chapter! The book will be out tomorrow, though and you can find out what happens: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

“Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel.” Meet the Men Profiting Off the Medical Fears of Thousands of Women 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 doctor…

@eburch.bsky.social exposes the scumbags behind shady doctors and telemarketing schemes that defrauded thousands of women: “It was like a Wall Street boiler room operation…and it was fucking magnificent.”

“Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel.” Meet the Men Profiting Off the Medical Fears of Thousands of Women 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 doctor…

Thanks so much to @literaryhub.bsky.social & @atriabooks.bsky.social for making this piece free and accessible to everyone.

Please read and share it today. And if it unsettles you, THE PAIN BROKERS will take you deeper.

PUB DAY TOMORROW! Full link 👇
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A call center. A script. A system designed to terrify women and turn harm into profit.

Today, @literaryhub.bsky.social published an excerpt from THE PAIN BROKERS, about how women were pulled into a legal and medical machine built to extract value, not deliver care or justice.

Thanks, Diane! We’ve been rewatching Arrested Development. Maybe I’m channeling The Banana Stand!

First signed copies of THE PAIN BROKERS at @barnesandnoble.com Athens! This story that I've held close since 2021 is in your hands now and out everywhere JAN 13.

It feels a little tender & terrifying to share it with the world. I hope that you fall in love with the people in it as I have. ❤️