A Big Pharma insider talks about a law firm sending 7,000+ side-effect complaints

November 16, 2006

They continue to pour in:

A law firm in Massachusetts has sent us 7000 complaints, with individual patient identifiers, for one of our psycho-active drugs. Since each patient is named, that means we have to create a case in our safety database for each one. They are overwhelmingly described as having an unspecified illness, so these cases don’t get reported anywhere, unless the patient has died. There’s a handful of those. We have no idea how many more are coming.