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Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation

Drug & Device Law

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs.

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Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation

Drug & Device Law

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

They’re experienced at what they do and aren’t intimidated by plaintiffs’ counsel and their threats of malpractice claims if they don’t testify the way plaintiffs want them to. Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” Schering Corp. ,

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