Patients Beware The Role of the Learned Intermediary Doctrine

Published: Aug. 12, 2012, 12:30 p.m.

b'Wyatt and guest critically examine a legal doctrine created in the 1940\\u2019s which has no place in our world of modern medicine. With patients involved in their own treatment and manufacturers who advertise their prescription drugs on television, the learned intermediary doctrine has outlived any usefulness it once had.'