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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. That means that prescribers can make risk/benefit analyses to determine what prescription drugs or medical devices their patients need. That “common and widely known side effect” of many “chemotherapy drugs,” id. Two other oldies but goodies are Plummer v.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

at 172 (“continued to prescribe” the drug “a lot” and “believed it to be an effective drug for many of her patients”). where the prescriber: testified that he would still be willing to prescribe [the drug] to his patients even if there was evidence showing that it could cause [plaintiff’s condition] in rare cases. 3d 75 (Fla.