Note to self-Don't have surgery this week. In addition to half of the heparin across the country being pulled, Duragesic patches made by Johnson and Johnson are also being recalled as well due to accidental overdose when the patches fail.
This article had a lot of interesting points (how much Johnson and Johnson grossed on the patches even though it's generic, new drug-Ionsys-that's having problems) but there was a statistic that really jumped out at me: They estimate that 2 patches per million have failed-around 64 total. But one patch failing could kill someone-so at what point did they decide to recall the patches? Perhaps a case for an Ethics case analysis....
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Another recall....
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