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Charles Jerome Ware, Attorneys & Counselors, LLC, is a Maryland-based national drug personal injury and wrongful death law firm. For an initial courtesy consultation, contact us at charlesjeromeware@msn.com, (410) 730-5016 or (410) 720-6129.
Pharmaceutical malpractice (pharmaceutical negligence) lawsuits are among the fastest-growing types of personal injury (tort) lawsuits in the United States today. This evidences that there is legal recourse when medicine harms someone.
Pharmaceutical (Drug) malpractice is very common in Maryland and elsewhere in America, and the core or foundation for these lawsuits is prescription medication. These cases are commonly based on (1) drug recalls, (2) product failure, (3) long-term side effects of prescription drugs, (4) improperly -prescribed medication, and (5) improperly-filled prescriptions.
A credible 2002 study found:
Dosage errors in hospitals accounted for 20% of all U.S hospital prescriptions; and
Potentially harmful errors to patients occurred in about 40% of all U.S. hospital prescriptions.
A credible 2003 study found:
The prescription error rate intercepted by pharmacists in the U.S. was 40%; and
The potential minimum number of patients harmed by prescription drugs in the U.S. was
417,908.
Some reasons why "drug recalls" are so common in the U.S. today include:
- Increased pressure for profits (profit motive) and need for medical relief causes "rushed"
production and marketing of drugs;
- Long-term side-effects are difficult to determine; and
- There is a "conflict of interest' in the process of testing drugs, since the "testing" is usually done by the drugs' manufacturers who are under pressure to rush the drugs to market.
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