Comments on: Medical roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/09/medical-roundup-43/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:41:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: MattS https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/09/medical-roundup-43/comment-page-1/#comment-340715 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:41:09 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=60740#comment-340715 In reply to Max Kennerly.

“When it comes to drumming up complaints about trial lawyers, adverse event reports are dispositive proof.”

The article in question is not talking about adverse event reports as evidence, dispositive or otherwise, for anything.

What it is talking about is a number of studies that show that a significant number of people are frightened into going off medications without first consulting their personal doctors, not by adverse event reports, but by TV ads put out by law firms looking to either drum up clients or claimants for a civil suit.

]]> By: Max Kennerly https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/09/medical-roundup-43/comment-page-1/#comment-340706 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:26:12 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=60740#comment-340706 When it comes to drug side effects, the pharmaceutical industry is adamant that adverse event reports are useless, misleading, filled with errors, and impossible to verify.

When it comes to drumming up complaints about trial lawyers, adverse event reports are dispositive proof.

]]> By: John Fembup https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/09/medical-roundup-43/comment-page-1/#comment-340673 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:13:14 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=60740#comment-340673 “my own in-person investigation”

Best wishes Walter!

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