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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. By 2002, approximately 79 percent of U.S. Correspondingly, most medical school ethics courses review issues related to consent, end-of-life care, and confidentiality.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” 8, 2019) (no causation where prescriber “testified that none of the additional risk information. . . Schering Corp. , 2d 1140, 1148 (N.J. 1993) (dissenting opinion). at 1233 (citation omitted).

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. 1978), where a hypertensive patient was injured after being injected with the defendant’s drug – despite warnings that “expressly directed the doctor administering the drug to refrain from giving it to a patient with hypertension.” Best Pharmacal , 577 P.2d Robins Co. ,

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Doctors Without Burdens:  Another Mesh Court Goes Backwards

Drug & Device Law

4th –, 2002 WL 3696680 (6th Cir. 2002), a pelvic mesh case that made its way from years languishing in an MDL to summary judgment in the transferee court to an appeal to the Sixth Circuit. 2002 WL 3696680, *5. It focused squarely on the doctor. 2002 WL 3696680, *6. Fast forward to Thacker v. Ethicon, Inc. , — F.4th

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