Kevin, M.D - Medical Weblog

Pharma tries victimize physicians

Thankfully, their strategy to shift liability failed:
In a setback for drugmakers, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that pharma can’t escape liability for harmful prescriptions by blaming problems on the docs. At issue is the notion of ‘learned intermediary,’ which says a doc presumably has enough info to make a prudent prescribing decision, absolving a drugmaker of any subsequent problem with a patient.

Comments

  1. Anonymous Anonymous  

    All of the benefits and none of the responsibility. Typical.
  2. Anonymous Anonymous  

    Don't be absurd. The FDA eventually banned cisapride because doctors kept murdering their patients by willfully ignoring the prescribing instructions. Even a black box warning about QT interval prolongation, fatal arrythmia, and fatal drug interactions wasn't enough to stop the patients dropping like flies.

    If anything, the patients who desperately needed this drug ought to have a cause of tort action against the reckless doctors who ruined it for everyone else.
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