- FDA to dental consumers: you can’t handle the tooth [New York Times via Alex Tabarrok]
- “How lawyers scare people out of taking their meds” [Lisa Rickard (U.S. Chamber), Washington Post]
- Lawsuits fail to bring improvements to nursing homes [ABA Journal]
- “Everything,” new Institute for Justice short film about costs of regulating bone marrow donation, has upcoming screenings in D.C. area, Breckinridge, Colo. and elsewhere;
- Aetna pulls out of most ObamaCare exchanges, and the acrimony flies [WSJ editorial] “Did the Medicaid expansion limit labor force participation?” [Tomas Wind via Tyler Cowen]
- Posting will be slower in coming weeks as I conduct my own in-person investigation of the state of America’s medical system. Thanks for bearing with me!
Filed under: FDA, nursing homes, ObamaCare, pharmaceuticals
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“my own in-person investigation”
Best wishes Walter!
When it comes to drug side effects, the pharmaceutical industry is adamant that adverse event reports are useless, misleading, filled with errors, and impossible to verify.
When it comes to drumming up complaints about trial lawyers, adverse event reports are dispositive proof.
“When it comes to drumming up complaints about trial lawyers, adverse event reports are dispositive proof.”
The article in question is not talking about adverse event reports as evidence, dispositive or otherwise, for anything.
What it is talking about is a number of studies that show that a significant number of people are frightened into going off medications without first consulting their personal doctors, not by adverse event reports, but by TV ads put out by law firms looking to either drum up clients or claimants for a civil suit.