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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. W]e believe that a drug manufacturer cannot be required legally to foresee that a licensed physician will disregard express warnings regarding a drug’s use. . . . There’s a reason why prescribing physicians and implanting surgeons are called “learned” intermediaries.

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. For qualified IMGs, it issues a certification, which IMGs can then use to apply to residency and other graduate medical education programs and to apply for state medical licenses. 23 in its current form.

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