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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

By 2002, approximately 79 percent of U.S. The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.” medical schools offered a formal ethics course.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

2002) (the “causal link is broken” where the implanting surgeon “would have taken the same course of action even with the information the plaintiff contends should have been provided”) (citation and quotation marks omitted) (applying Georgia law); Ralston v. Shire Richwood, Inc. , 3d 1013, 1018 (8th Cir. Bard, Inc. , 3d 1272, 1283 n.8

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

2002), aff’d , 356 F.3d American Cyanamid Co. , 3d 496, 514 (6th Cir. 2003) (risk differences between two types of vaccines held insufficient to justify a warning that one was “preferred”); Thomas , 949 F.2d 2d at 817 (as a matter of law a “possibility of rare seizures. . . Synthes Spine Co. , 3d 1114 (9th Cir. 2001), aff’d , 358 F.3d

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Doctors Without Burdens:  Another Mesh Court Goes Backwards

Drug & Device Law

4th –, 2002 WL 3696680 (6th Cir. 2002), a pelvic mesh case that made its way from years languishing in an MDL to summary judgment in the transferee court to an appeal to the Sixth Circuit. 2002 WL 3696680, *5. 2002 WL 3696680, *6. Fast forward to Thacker v. Ethicon, Inc. , — F.4th 3d 758, 769-70 (Ky.

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