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Health Provider News – February 10, 2023

Hall Render

deal to buy national physician practice Support grows for association health plans as small employer insurance costs soar Connecticut doctors call on legislature to tackle prior authorization during this year’s session CT hospitals support student-loan forgiveness, debt-free college programs to boost healthcare workforce DC D.C.’s

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The BFDs – The Ten Best Prescription Drug/Medical Device Decisions of 2023

Drug & Device Law

2023) ( Buckman preemption barred MDL asserting fraud on EPA), cert. Plaintiff knew about it, too, since he signed an informed consent document mentioning it. Specifically, “it would be nonsensical to require directions for patient use for a drug that is injected into the patient by a doctor in a clinical setting.”

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form.

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Lovely Warnings Causation (and More) Mesh Decision from the Central District of California

Drug & Device Law

And the court agreed, finding that “the undisputed facts reflected that [the doctor] testified she read the IFU, relied on the warnings provided by [the defendant], believed she had a comprehensive informed consent process, and would have passed on a warning about the risk of severe and chronic pain to patients.

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