Dec 4 2007Dennis Quaid sues pharmaceutical company

Definitely someone should own up to the responsibility - but shouldn't they be suing the nurse who ADMINISTERED the dose instead of the manufacturer of the drug? JMHO....

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Shouldn't he sue the hospital instead of the drug company?

/never took the Bar Exam

what's Herparin? it sounds like Herpes meds.

fucking idiots neet to sue the HOSPITAL, not the manufacturers of the drug

I heard he named the twins Ketchup and Marinara.

Exactly - the hospital. Why the hell would it be the drug manufacturers fault someone OD on the amount taken? Weak.

I understand that the O.D. made the kids retarded, but why is their dad retarded too?

i'm sure they aren't done with the list of people they will sue. surely, they will sue the hospital. dennis quaid needs this money considering his acting skills can't be keeping that family indoors. i wouldn't be surprised if he was in on it himself. he probably never wanted the kids. men don't want kids. they just want your pussy and those kids ruined that. i'd be pissed too.

Well, A) if you read the article it clearly states the bottles allegedly aren't manufactured to look different enough so as not to make such a mistake and B) duh, a drug company is going to have WAY more money to hand over than a hospital.

Cedars-Sinai is pretty jewy, so I'm not surprised they tried to kill some Irish kids.

#6, 8, and 11 Nice ones, troll.

And by nice ones, I mean FUCK YOU!!!

kudos to only asking for 50,000 in damages. most idjit americans would go for millions and million.

Fucking trolls..

I'm surprised he went after the drug company rather than the incompetent nurses. I think this will be more effective than suing a hospital. It will make the drug company change the packaging for different dosages of heparin...that way the to-lazy-to-double-check nurses of the world won't select the wrong dosage as easily.

Of course he went after the drug company, he's not gonna get any money out of a nurse with an 80,000 dollar a year salary. Besides it was negligence on all parties. So sad.

Heparin - I think Fish has it misspelled - is an anti-coagulant. The dosage given the twins could have been fatal had the mistake not been caught immediately and countermeasures taken.

If you think about it, suing the company makes more sense. Look at the amount - $50,000. Not billions. I think Quaid and wife have thought this through. *Could* they sue the hospital? Sure. Would it make the manufacturer change the bottles so that nurses, many of whom are working double-shifts and are stretched to the max on nurse:patient ratios, make the necessary safety changes? No.

The Quaids aren't looking to make money - $50K may be the minimum amount you can sue for in Federal Court (not sure about that part).

The object lesson here was for the manufacturer to stop making the bottles look identical for dosages that are vastly different - like the difference between rubbing alcohol and jet fuel. I've seen the bottles and the label is the only appreciable difference.

I'm sure the object here is to get the manufacturer to "settle" for the expense of changing how they differentiate between the two dosages. Some hospitals have taken to attaching a plastic ring around the neck of the larger dosage so that the med staff can make a visual ID on the run between the two. So if HOSPITALS know it's a problem and are taking preventive measures, why isn't the MANUFACTURER doing so?

Good job, Quaids. Hope your kids are doing well.

It's called Heparin; it's an anticoagulant (prevents blood clotting). In the nurses' defense, they might be the ones who administer the drug, but the hospital pharmacy is responsible as well -- they're supposed to give out the correct doses for the nurses to administer. And finally, the very same thing mistake led to the deaths of several newborns earlier this year or late last year (I can't remember), so it's quite possible that something really DOES need to be done about the bottle labeling.

Or you could just read Vince Lombardi's post, as he apparently got to the point just before I did.

I agree with both of #10-chriso points. Most of the drugs I've worked with that had different dosages looked different from the other dosage strengths.

There's many ways dosage mistakes can be made; in the Quaid's case:

the tech put the wrong bottles into the drug container

however, nurses know their drugs often come from 'just' techs (as opposed to a full fledged pharmacist), so nurses are supposed to check dosage each and every time before administering

but, drug companies know that when the same drug comes in many dosages that confusion can happen (in the pharmacy as well as on the unit), and most companies make their different dosages look different (different colors, larger print on dosage area)

The Quaids' attorney said "that three children in Indiana died from a similar mix-up." Obviously there's a pattern. I think the reason the Quaids are asking for so little, and not going after the nurse/hospital is to force drug companies into properly labeling differently dosed drugs. If the drug company loses, they, and other drug companies will probably do a better job, or face further damages in the future.

PS - veggi: you're despicable and creepy

Yea, everything veggi writes is pretty lame and never makes me laugh. Because of this, I think she's probably ugly. And I'm against that.

Quaid is a 10 on the hotness scale! That is what I would say if I was his lawyer.

I think they already settled up with the hospital people. They are suing the drug company so they change their labelling so it does not happen again. The labels for those dosages are just too similar, and the dosage amounts are HUGE differences. Consider it a public service. I do. If it was about money, they'd sue for more than $50k. It is about making sure this crap never happens again, and getting some PR to an issue that could happen to anyone.

Wanna do some bareback riding cowgirl?

I'm glad they had the composure to sue. I would be too busy throttling the nurses/Dr that admistered the drugs and destroying the hospital to think about suing, but then maybe I wouldn't (I'm not Akon--come on)!

Hey #24, is that you punkA?

@17

...the amount in controversy for federal court has to be $75,000 in a diversity case, or the issue has to be based on a federal question. It's irrelevant in this case, as Quaid filed in Cook County Superior Court.

And if the media is to be believed, it makes sense to sue to the drug manufacturer, because this is a product liability case.

Just a troll. Not that I have a problem with it this time.

Just a troll. Not that I have a problem with it this time.

As a Mother and Grandmother, I feel your pain .What a horrible mistake and I pray for you and your children.May God Bless your family.

Well, that could be a "drafty" proposition!

TOTALLY commendable to only ask for $50,000. Quaid is trying to effect a public change through a product liability suit.

For starters, they're newborns that lived. Future damages are untold since no studies have been done on longterm effects of heparin ODs. Most importantly, Quaid is obviously smacking the company with a lesson, not trying to make dough. Good man!!

He is also making himself look good in the process, and assuring himself LOADS of free good publicity while his case lingers on in court for the [expected] next 3-4 years.

He could still attempt to sue Cedars for the (obvious) negligence of its nursing staff , which by the way, he has one year from date of injury to decide that.

(BTW: My guess is private out of court settlement with hospital for tonz of dough. Hospitals have insurance policies for that shit.)

@32...

...Ah, if Quaid decided to sue the hospital for malpractice, he has two years, not one. Moreover, if the injury doesn't manifest itself (cannot be observed) in the two years, the SoL can extend to four.

/Just sayin'.

@32...

...Ah, if Quaid decided to sue the hospital for malpractice, he has two years, not one. Moreover, if the injury doesn't manifest itself (cannot be observed) in the two years, the SoL can extend to four.

/Just sayin'.

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@32...

...Ah, if Quaid decided to sue the hospital for malpractice, he has two years, not one. Moreover, if the injury doesn't manifest itself (cannot be observed) in the two years, the SoL can extend to four.

/Just sayin'.

I'm glad not many people here are blaming the doctors involved (except #25). As a doctor, I can say that any misadministration that I've seen has been on the part of the pharmacist/RN/tech/hospital system. The physicians obviously know what the correct dose is in the context of the patient (10,000 units of Heparin is an acceptable dose for an adult in some scenarios). But yes, #25 go ahead and blame doctors for medical malpractice when in all likelihood, the correct dose was prescribed, and the wrong dose administered. We only graduate from college and medical school and then complete anywhere from 3-8 years of postgraduate training while working 80+ hours a week (for what averages out to less than minimum wage during residency) to save people like you who are looking to sue us into the ground.

I guess he has to get money from someplace. He sure as heck can't get an acting job.

#32 is right.

More importantly, juries can award punitive damages that plaintiffs don't request. Juries can award punitive damages that can punish a company enough to set an example. It's too bad that they don't actually do this enough.

Anyone else shocked and horrified by the 'Jewy' comment???

Hey, dumbass, that was my troll, I don't talk that way...EVER!!!!!

I just left a job where I was a pharmacy tech. I can tell you that the error is the fault of the hospital. They even admitted an "avoidable" error was made! You have to check the label every time for exactly these reasons!

Quaid is a POS looking for money. I knew he was a jerkoff, but not on this scale.

BTW, I agree with post 37. They are dead on.

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thought he uploaded a side face photo. But some users still recongnied him. maybe he wants to date to a gental girl?

I imagine the drug company is going to settle this quickly by opening up their petty cash fund box at their nearest office.

haw-haw, i just heard a slur that he was pampered by a rich woman who he met on sugarmommymeet.com where rich women find their sugar babies.

I think Dennis Quaid and his wife are way off base on this one. They should be suing both the nurse and the hospital.

I think Dennis Quaid and his wife are way off base on this one. They should be suing both the nurse and the hospital.

"nurses, many of whom are working double-shifts and are stretched to the max on nurse:patient ratios"

The problem is the hospital and lack of staff resources. Suing the manufacturer does not correct this. It also does not change the fact that these over-worked nurses could make a similar mistake not related to dosage.

The manufacturer is regulated by the FDA. The FDA approves these labels. The manufacturer designs said labels according to guidelines given by the FDA. So even if you could prove that the mistake was because of labeling, which it is not, it would be inappropriate to sue the manufacturer when the FDA (i.e.: the government) is ultimately responsible for the labeling.

50 friggin Gs? For two kids!? Oh wait, that's what he got for the Jerry Lee Lewis film, all for just acting like he just got hit with a two by four. His brother Randy'll give ya a blumpkin for 50 bucks, by the way.

#37, i think you should get your head out of your ass. obviously in this case it was some sort of staff or administrative error, whoever administered the dose should have carefully checked the label. not the physician's fault. but dont rave about how doctors work 80 hours a week at minimum wage just to save innocent lives. doctors go into the medical field with the expectation of making bank once they finish residency and (most) work very reasonable hours.

I personally respect nurses more than anyone else in the health care world. They make much less money than doctors relative to their work effort and responsibilities. Things like this happen because hospitals (and in particular nurses) are understaffed, overworked, and generally strained.

I also think that physicians are ultimately responsible for what meds their patients receive, regardless of who made the error.

The bottles do look different. The labels both are in white and blue, but one is a much darker shade of blue. Not the wisest choice perhaps, but they're not the exact same shade.

What a bunch of illiterate morons. It reads "more than $50,000" which means in legalese zillions. Geez

Why on earth would you need to give a newborn baby heparin anyway? I'm a midwife and have worked on the neonatal unit and have never seen heparin administered.
In the UK you don't have to bring action on any birth related 'incidents' until the child involved is 21 - that way you can see if theyre have been any long term effects.

Perhaps they can compromise and have the hospital pay for his wife's liposuction and tummy tuck instead. Or overdose a celebrity of his choice with a drug of his choice. Or demand a lifetime supply of prescription meds, or as Britney Spears calls it, the candy bowl.

This is bullshit, some agreement cooked up between Quaid and the hospital. Those labels are clearly not "nearly identical," they are only similar in appearance.
This is a matter of an idiot nurse, a smooth-talking administrator, and an actor with more money than anyone could ever need and two (now) healthy babies.

I think the parents are doing what they think is right to prevent this from happening again to anyone else. That's what I would do, too. The amount they're going for is chump change for a family that rich. They're not out for money, they want to prevent further tragedy.

I hope the babies are in good health, and I hope the company adjusts their packaging to help prevent mistakes like this from happening again.

I don't disagree that the hospital staff made the error, but why not do something as simple as adjusting the packaging if it can help patients get better care?

they are idiots. sue the people that didn't read how much medicine to give.

they are idiots. sue the people that didn't read how much medicine to give.

i hope he doesn't get one red cent.

Yeah. Sue the nurse. Talk about actions that create change to a flawed process! Dumbass.
Also, if the "regulars" don't stop bitching about fucking "trolls", I'm going to dropkick you all right out of your mother's basement. If "trolls" make you so angry, FIND A NEW MESSAGE BOARD, MORONS.

If Quaid and his bimbo wife had tried to have a "natural" family, these babies would not have been in the hospital. It is their fault for RENTING another woman's uterus so that Mrs. Bikini-model Quaid would not risk her tight little figure.

They tried for years to have kids, and "Mrs. Bikini-model Quaid" had FIVE miscarriages, so they finally and reluctantly went the surrogate route. Tard.

Also, I have anal herpes and AIDS. I'm so lonely, would someone care to fuck me in the ass?

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Because you are an ignorant layperson, #51, I will afford you the same forgiveness that I allow all of my patients.

"doctors go into the medical field with the expectation of making bank once they finish residency and (most) work very reasonable hours" - yes, a potentially good salary IF the current health care climate does not change. However nationalized health care insurance is the number one domestic issue in the 2008 election while Medicare payouts drop regularly, in addition to the fact that the average physician graduates with $130k in debt after medical school (I for instance, dropped $250k on my medical school training). And you obviously are not nor have ever been associated with professional health care to even attempt to remark that physicians work reasonable hours. Most residents work much more than 80 but clock less in order to keep their jobs and residency programs from being denied accreditation. And everyone does it to better the care of patients, while being held to a standard of perfection - or get sued otherwise. No medical test is 100% perfect and no human is totally infallible. Why should we hold doctors and nurses to the same standard?

"I also think that physicians are ultimately responsible for what meds their patients receive, regardless of who made the error. " That's nice - I have better things to do than to personally give each one of my patients their medications. My expectation is that a competant RN or PA will dispense the medications that I have written for. The law agrees with me, so it seems you're the only one who thinks this way. You know, there's a name for that... it's called delusional ideation. Maybe you should see a doctor about it?

Don't bother thanking me for forgiving you. I'm used to it. After all, it's the charity of people like me who allow people like you to continue to exist.

scratz, your argument doesn't make sense. you say in your first paragraph that in this case it's not the physicians fault, and then you end by saying that doctors are ultimately responsible no matter who makes the error

Hey all you idiots. Who has more money, nurses, hospitals, or drug manufacturers? When filing a law suit you go after the person who has the most money. You don't sue a fucking nurse who makes $15 an hour. And you go after the person who can make the most change so that it doesn't happen again. Suing the hospital might change things at that hospital but whatabout the rest of the hospitals around the country? The drug manufacturer is the right place to sue. And for those of you ignorant shit bags who think they deserve this because they used a surrogate, you are EVIL. You shouldn't even wish ill will on a child. Just for thinking that, I hope Karma comes around and slaps you silly.

It's a nurses' fucking job to administer the correct dose. That means READING THE FUCKING BOTTLE. It's not the drug companies fault if a nurse didn't read the fucking bottle.

I'm a nurse. One of the fundamentals you always, always, ALWAYS follow is to check the vial THREE times--once before you draw it up, again after you draw it up, and a third time before you administer it. Plain and simple. Yes, it would probably be extremely helpful to change the style of ampules as I can attest that they do indeed look extremely similar. HOWEVER, it is always the nurse's responsibility for medication errors, both legally and ethically. Besides, if you KNOW the vials look exactly alike wouldn't that be an even greater motivation to double-check yourself?

And, btw, nurses are rarely ever, ever sued as individuals. They are usually named as parties to a suit filed against a hospital, as we are always covered by the hospital's umbrella malpractice coverage.

Curlygirl,
you are talking absolute and utter shite.
You have UNTIL the age of 21 to bring a suit on behalf of a child in the UK.

Thank you #37 for corrrecting me. My bad. That is why I put nurse/Dr as in I wasn't positive WHO administered it, but I would kick WHOEVER's ass that did it. As far as you "prescribing" things and washing your hands of all responsibility, usually Dr.'s are notorious for crappy, foreign chicken scratch that is intellegible. Is it any wonder that people have to be employed who can decipher prescriptions from Dr's that don't speak English? I have had enough experience with "my shit don't stink" Dr's like you, to expect a long-winded and lofty response on medical issues.

The medicine is call Heparin, not Herparin. Its a blood thinner, not a drug for HSV!

Dude...stop posting it incorrectly...it's heparin...not herparin. I let it go the first time but damn.

Curlygirl,
Sorry, i don't think I read your post properly. I thought you were saying in the UK you couldn't start proceedings until the child was 21.
Having said that - if your child has been brain damaged, it's usually evident in the first couple of years. You're not going to wait 21 years to see how bad the effects of the negligence are.
Plus, most people would start clinical negligence claims as early as possible, simply because the longer you wait the harder it is to gather the evidence that negligence occurred.

I feel for him and his family. For some reason I've always really liked him.

Also, I'm surprised the Superfish didn't make some reference to his last name being the same as Dennis Quaid's wife's. Buffington--that's just rich.

@ cowgirl:

Did you mean, "unintelligible"? That is why we have computer systems and printable prescriptions.

If you want to hold health care professionals to a standard of absolute perfection, then fucking go to medical school or nursing school and give your own medications to your own kids, or shut the fuck up and deal with a health care system that will never be perfect. Nothing would please me more than having you escorted out by hospital security and considering having your kids removed from you by DCFS.

My shit does stink... just not as much as yours, you ignorant buffoon.

Hey 77! Thanks for correcting me--you should know the definition of unintelligible then?!
I don't hold health care professionals to a perfect standard---the physicians presume to be perfect for me. As far as DCFS, I had to look that up, so I'm assuming I've never encountered anyone from that department and since my daughter has grown to the ripe age of 14, I'll assume I will never encounter the DCFS.
It is super fun to take things personally and get all riled up over an internet site. Methinks you should change your occupation. I was fed up with the educational system and LEFT it!

Only $50,000? If I was a movie star with money to hire a good lawyer and some crazy messed up shit happened to my babies because of some evil corporation, I'd take them for all they're worth. I guess it's pretty magnanimous of Quaid to only ask for little more than what he'll probably spend in legal fees, but I am not that strong a person. There would be some hungry, homeless executives cowering in the streets of . . . um, Wall Street if a pharmaceutical company was responsible for the near-death of my child(ren). Meanwhile, I would be laughing from their former penthouse above, while smelling a large wad of cash and decking out my infants in Mr. T-style bling.

They are suing the drug com bec of how the vials are labeled. Different doses of the drug look the same. the hospital should be sued as well for not double checking the dosage ESPECIALLY if its confusing

Hi ignorant buffoon,
You say you left the education system and you're happier? Well, you know what they say, ignorance is bliss...

Just so you know, DCFS can take any child (<18 years) of an abusive parent, which means that you can still qualify, so you'd better put that ankle bracelet on your daughter. Geez, that's like, the 3rd time I've had to educate you today! Methinks you never should have left the education system... on second thought, maybe it's better that way. I don't want a fucking retard like you having anything to do with teaching kids.

#81, Yes ignorance is bliss--that is why I left the education system to their ignorance. FYI--I would have been an asset to the medical community--trying to get science hammered into closed minds.

Thank you again for educating me on DCFS? A subject you are well-versed or well-researched in? Although---ankle bracelets and being "led away" by security guards could be a fun event that I haven't tried. Spank me!

The educational system probably doesn't want esteemed physicians like yourself uttering un-pc phrases like "retard" either! I used to prefer the term "extra chromosome" when refering to someone of somewhat challenged intellect. Last time I checked I have all 46!

Pray tell, are you a surgeon, general practice physician, or do you work for the free clinic?

Haha! You guys are funny! #81 can't possibly really work for the medical community. Real doctors are at the golf course or feeling up some fake boobied trophy doll right now and have their heads way too far up their ass to take time to chat with the public!

I am also a nurse and agree with Jen (#70) 100%.

Regardless of who orders the medication (doctor) or sends it to the unit(pharmacy), it is ultimately the nurse's responsiblity to read the label and make damn sure he or she knows exactly what's being administered.

They look exactly the same? Doesn't one say 10 and the other 10,000?

#17

I came here to say the same thing. It's good to see there are some people with intelligence here.

It's clear the Quaid's are not trying to make money. They are trying to get the pharmaceutical company to differentiate the bottles so some poor kid in the future doesn't get the wrong dosage again. If they win the lawsuit, it sets a precedent so if this happens again the next family will know they can expect to win if they sue the company for millions, and the next and the next until the problem is fixed.

Doctors making bank? Don't be a shithead.

My husband graduated from a state med school in 1993. Did residency until 1996, then a fellowship until 1998. During residency, he earned $37k, during fellowship he earned $40k and as a Johns Hopkins Med faculty member, he started at 80k and never made more than 110k before we moved away.

Wow-that's really BANK when you're facing $150k in student loans at 7% interest and you can't start saving for your retirement until you're 45 years old because your loans payments are $1800 a month and you're living in an expensive city like Baltimore.

So, when you see those fancy Hopkins doctors on the news, talking about the latest research? They drive crappy Honda Accords, wear the same suit for years and don't have iPhones.

The MD never administers the drug, either. He/She writes the Rx and it's up to the nurse to take it from there-the MD has already moved on to another patient by then and must trust the nurse. Most of the time, they do.

And I'm not blaming the nurse, either, although she could have caught the error-who knows how busy the NICU was at that moment.

I think $50k is valid. They have plenty of money and his wife is a real estate investor with plenty of cash. They're making a point and it's a good one. I hope the company changes the SOP for labeling.

#16 Where do these nurses work that you know that make $80,000 a year because I so want a job there. The only staff RN in a hospital that might make this would be an agency/travel nurse working overtime at a hospital in New York and maybe too California. I could see a nurse practitioner making this kind of salary or more but they wouldn’t work as a staff nurse at a hospital in a unit.

#37 Step down off your high horse and lose the God complex they teach you all so well in Med school. Do you know how many doctor’s asses I have saved, being the lowly nurse that I am, because either the doctor didn't have a clue what med he was ordering, for what patient they were ordering for, or for that matter what the correct dose should be. We won't even go into how you antiquated idiots should be doing computer order entry by now instead of wasting the time of half the hospital staff deciphering your shitty handwriting and making call backs to you. If your comeback is that you do, then kudos for you because most doctors aren’t.

People out in the real world who want to know where a lot of your medical errors come from, there you go! An MD writes a crappy order, the pharmacist runs with it and then the nurse thinking these people know what they’re doing gives the medicine. This is why I don’t trust any of these people when it’s my license on the line. Two important tidbits I learned during nursing school read the charts and orders for yourselves before giving meds and that drug books are your best friends.

This whole situation was a failed process as far as I'm concerned. First, the drug manufacture needs to address their labels for different dosages. Second, the pharmacist and the pharmacist tech for the drug being in the wrong place or for them not catching the improper dosing before it even made it to the nurse. Finally, by the nurse that didn't triple check the dose and have another nurse check the dose with her.

FIRST!! - I didn't think it was you, I saw that you said it was your troll... nonetheless that someone would say it is... perturbing...

I commented on #20 *before* the pics came back of the different dose bottles. *If* that photo from TMZ is from heparin that was at Cedars at the time of the mixup, then they are different enough in my opinion to qualify as "marked differently" to avoid dosage confusion.

Then reading 54. curlygurl's comment reminded me that the hospital I worked at mostly gave saline flushes, not heparin. I believe they also flushed pedi IVs with only saline too.

There are times when it's necessary to use heparin in babies and pedis: my son was in NICU and received heparin regularly, but that was because his diagnosis affected his clotting times. But unless it's medically necessary, heparin is too dangerous of a drug to use when it's not medically necessary.

The hospital I worked at had some other anal rules: Two licensed nurses must witness and initial in the drug records all insulin or heparin injections. The witnessing nurse had to look at the drug vial to make sure it was the right drug/dosage, and then confirm the amount drawn was correct as per medical orders. That's the only hospital I worked at, does Cedars have this requirement?

So, now I'm changing my mind from my first post since seeing those pics at TMZ (*if* those are actually what Cedars had in their inventory at the time).

Now my questions would be:

1. Was it medically necessary for the babies to have their IV locks flushed with heparin?

2. If not, WHY were they flushed with heparin? Was it a written doctors order that the IVs had to be flushes with heparin, or was it Cedar's house policy that all IV locks be flushed with heparin?

If the law suit continues as is, and those photos are correct, I'd find the pharmacy companies not guilty. But if it was Cedar's house policy to flush with heparin, I'd award the Quaids legal fees only, and vote that Cedars HAD to change their IV Lock flushing policy (and hopefully other hospitals still flushing all locks with heparin would follow suit since precedence had been set).

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You guys are funny! Real doctors are at the golf course or feeling up some fake boobied trophy doll right now and have their heads way too far up their ass to take time to chat with the public!

@ anyone against this ruling, and needle-dick posing as a MD just to talk trash to that Teacher.

Pharmaceutical Companies pull all kinds of fancy lobbying and bribery stunts. If a lawsuit was going to be filed to "set Precedence", they should be charged "Guilty" for the "Improper Labeling" charge, $50,000 awarded to the Plaintiff, and another 1 Billion awarded to the "Federal Medicare" budget and THAT, my friends, would set precedence. To you doctors who think you are all "High and Mighty" and your "Shit" don't stink, research Zyprexa Lawsuit and see what the search comes up with. Doctors are overworked BECAUSE THEY CARE, Doctors also stay and treat patients "CORRECTLY!" because they care, and if you can find a Nurse position that pays $50,000 or more a year, TAKE IT because it just isn't going to happen!

Now, on the other hand you have these Psychologist's and Psychiatrist's who like prescribe these "New FDA Approved" drugs that are suppose to be safer, but yet these new drugs, research "Zyprexa" and "Seroquel" that cause major health issues, including but not limited to "Brain De-Formalities"! A doctor can only prescribe a new a Medication based on what the Pharmaceutical Companies label them for due to the fact that there is no actual "testing and research" time and/or evidence that these medications do what they are told they do and what the side-effects are.

Next, someone stated "FDA Approved", FDA Approval does not mean JACK! FDA Approval is based only on basic precautions and make sure that the Pharm. Comp. have covered their own asses as far as legal matters go. They can only do that to a certain extent though based on the lack of research and testing time/evidence as stated in above paragraph. I am a patient who was prescribed medications such as Zyprexa and Seroquel based on a false diagnoses that was handed to me by "The Acadia Hospital" of Bangor, Maine. I was put in their care upon the FALSE Arrest of a so-called "Attempted Suicide" by the South West Police Department, particularly Dave Chappais, S.W.P.D Police Chief. I have evidence on the false arrest and accusation of Attempted Suicide, and I have the evidence on the False Diagnosis of Bi-Polar I, also backed up that I do not have ADD/ADHD, Bi-Polar type II, nor Schizophrenia.

My points #1.) The ENTIRE system, from federal, to Hospital, to Health Care Provider, down to the Nurse and even the patients!
Point #2.) CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG!?!?!?

@ anyone against this ruling, and needle-dick posing as a MD just to talk trash to that Teacher.

Pharmaceutical Companies pull all kinds of fancy lobbying and bribery stunts. If a lawsuit was going to be filed to "set Precedence", they should be charged "Guilty" for the "Improper Labeling" charge, $50,000 awarded to the Plaintiff, and another 1 Billion awarded to the "Federal Medicare" budget and THAT, my friends, would set precedence. To you doctors who think you are all "High and Mighty" and your "Shit" don't stink, research Zyprexa Lawsuit and see what the search comes up with. Doctors are overworked BECAUSE THEY CARE, Doctors also stay and treat patients "CORRECTLY!" because they care, and if you can find a Nurse position that pays $50,000 or more a year, TAKE IT because it just isn't going to happen!

Now, on the other hand you have these Psychologist's and Psychiatrist's who like prescribe these "New FDA Approved" drugs that are suppose to be safer, but yet these new drugs, research "Zyprexa" and "Seroquel" that cause major health issues, including but not limited to "Brain De-Formalities"! A doctor can only prescribe a new a Medication based on what the Pharmaceutical Companies label them for due to the fact that there is no actual "testing and research" time and/or evidence that these medications do what they are told they do and what the side-effects are.

Next, someone stated "FDA Approved", FDA Approval does not mean JACK! FDA Approval is based only on basic precautions and make sure that the Pharm. Comp. have covered their own asses as far as legal matters go. They can only do that to a certain extent though based on the lack of research and testing time/evidence as stated in above paragraph. I am a patient who was prescribed medications such as Zyprexa and Seroquel based on a false diagnoses that was handed to me by "The Acadia Hospital" of Bangor, Maine. I was put in their care upon the FALSE Arrest of a so-called "Attempted Suicide" by the South West Police Department, particularly Dave Chappais, S.W.P.D Police Chief. I have evidence on the false arrest and accusation of Attempted Suicide, and I have the evidence on the False Diagnosis of Bi-Polar I, also backed up that I do not have ADD/ADHD, Bi-Polar type II, nor Schizophrenia.

My points #1.) The ENTIRE system, from federal, to Hospital, to Health Care Provider, down to the Nurse and even the patients!
Point #2.) CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG!?!?!?