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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

Thus a confident learned intermediary’s testimony will defeat causation as a matter of law by stating that, notwithstanding a poor result, the treatment provided was standard of care, and even in hindsight they would not do anything different. Confident learned intermediaries stand by their medical decisions. Medrano , 28 S.W.3d

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. The plaintiffs’ causation allegations foundered in Himes because the treating physician did not believe that the claimed risks of electroconvulsive therapy were all that big of a deal, and thus did not warn about it. at *3 (emphasis original). 2d 1084 (Ariz.