Avandia: Patients partly to blame?

John Mack suggests that instead of attacking GSK and the FDA, the blame should be spread around:

Maybe even patients are partly to blame. When was the last time YOU read a package insert. Yes, it’s often incomprehensible, but patients often don’t even read the patient section of a drug’s label, which is easy to read as opposed to the technical part of the label designed for physicians.

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