She argued that the cost to life in terms of drugs and treatments that never got approved runs to several million people, far outweighing the likely number of deaths from drugs that might have dangerous side-effects.It brings to mind the requirement for bicycle helmets. At what cost?
Regards — Cliff
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Fascinating but unsurprising when you go back and look at the incentives.
All those thousands or millions of people who didn't get the treatment that they never knew about to begin with wouldn't know who or what to sue.
But it only takes ONE victim's family (or, their crafty lawyer) to go after a company whose product caused or even MAY have caused a death to put that entire business at risk.
That puts both the companies on the regulators in a "playing not to lose" rather than a "playing to win" mindset.
I would call the result a tragedy, but I think Joseph Stalin would disagree -- it's a statistic.
Great Stalin quote! Well played.
Regards — Cliff
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