Re: Class Action Commentary -

[Guest guest]

I've often wondered about this, for example the clearly negligent doctor in the

Yates case. Doctors are forever whining about laws suits and tort

reform, and they consistently blame the victim, rather than the insurance

companies, drug makers, drug pushers, and the FDA itself. If they were scared

to prescribe questionable drugs, or actually ran back to the pharmaceutical

company and said " Why did you tell me to prescribe this crap? Look what

happened! " or said to the FDA " Why in the hell did you approve this drug or at

least tell me not to give it to children? " then some substantial institutional

reform could take place. Its been patients demanding full disclosure of

clinical trials, as far as I can tell, and doctors only taking the issue up

later. Doctors are not our advocates.

So it does seem that while any one individual lawsuit may not be terrifically

successful, a flurry of them, from scientific fraud to price fixing to cheat

states out of their Medicaid money to misleading advertising to crooked

marketing practices to doctors...not to mention the so-called Medicaid reform

law that prompted them to raise their prices to gouge the elderly, oh, and don't

forget their patent manipulation and denial of affordable AIDS drugs to dying

people in the Third World--whew! Its goliath. They should be attacked at every

angle, thus affecting their bottom line--the stock price. Money/greed is the

only language these scumbags speak. Medicine should not be diverted for the

benefit of the shareholder rather than the patient. I say sue their asses off.

Make them sweat.

Re: Class Action Commentary -

You want to sue the wrong people. AD's are not approved for children,

therefore the only parties responsible when given to children are those

prescribing.

[Guest guest]

I've often wondered about this, for example the clearly negligent doctor in the

Yates case. Doctors are forever whining about laws suits and tort

reform, and they consistently blame the victim, rather than the insurance

companies, drug makers, drug pushers, and the FDA itself. If they were scared

to prescribe questionable drugs, or actually ran back to the pharmaceutical

company and said " Why did you tell me to prescribe this crap? Look what

happened! " or said to the FDA " Why in the hell did you approve this drug or at

least tell me not to give it to children? " then some substantial institutional

reform could take place. Its been patients demanding full disclosure of

clinical trials, as far as I can tell, and doctors only taking the issue up

later. Doctors are not our advocates.

So it does seem that while any one individual lawsuit may not be terrifically

successful, a flurry of them, from scientific fraud to price fixing to cheat

states out of their Medicaid money to misleading advertising to crooked

marketing practices to doctors...not to mention the so-called Medicaid reform

law that prompted them to raise their prices to gouge the elderly, oh, and don't

forget their patent manipulation and denial of affordable AIDS drugs to dying

people in the Third World--whew! Its goliath. They should be attacked at every

angle, thus affecting their bottom line--the stock price. Money/greed is the

only language these scumbags speak. Medicine should not be diverted for the

benefit of the shareholder rather than the patient. I say sue their asses off.

Make them sweat.

Re: Class Action Commentary -

You want to sue the wrong people. AD's are not approved for children,

therefore the only parties responsible when given to children are those

prescribing.

[Guest guest]

You want to sue the wrong people. AD's are not approved for children,

therefore the only parties responsible when given to children are those

prescribing.

[Guest guest]

You want to sue the wrong people. AD's are not approved for children,

therefore the only parties responsible when given to children are those

prescribing.

[Guest guest]

I think your first sentence nailed the problem, negligent doctors.

A doc should not rely just on the information from a ten minute call

from a sales person, but should educate himself fully. Read the entire package

insert, read the studies. Not prescribe off label. The doctor is the one

prescribing, keep them accountable.