More Than A Test | The Rise of the Unsilenced Movement

In this short documentary film, Unsilenced Movement founder Shelby Smith reveals the dark underbelly of voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG), the "gold standard" diagnostic test for vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in pediatric urology. The VCUG test is performed on up to 1 million children every year while being falsely promoted as safe, low-risk and minimally invasive, despite decades of critically appraised research establishing this test as the "psychological equivalent" to child sexual abuse. After recovering her own repressed memories of VCUG trauma at age 27, Smith interviews other former VCUG patients to amplify their voices, raise awareness about the real and lasting harm of VCUG, and advocate for overdue reform in pediatric urology.