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This wouldn't happen. Even from a pharmaceutical company's viewpoint, their regulatory body comes down on them like a ton of bricks if too many people suffer i
by ChrisRR 6y ago
This wouldn't happen. Even from a pharmaceutical company's viewpoint, their regulatory body comes down on them like a ton of bricks if too many people suffer injury from their products.
So pharmaceutical companies and other medical product manufacturers manage their risk by only selling to approved suppliers, so that they don't have people randomly putting themselves at risk using their products.
- qwerty456127 6y agoIt should be enough to put a clear warning on the box saying you take all the risk yourself if choose to self-prescribe and also list all the known interactions and counter-indications somewhere in the manual. This works just fine in some countries. You can't drink a chemical potentially poisonous to you after being warned and still sue the vendor like if they didn't tell you shouldn't.
- ChrisRR 6y agoAs someone who works in medical devices I can tell you in the medical field it's not enough to just write on a box "If you use this incorrectly and get injured, it's not our fault" Medical products have risk assessments a mile long for every scenario the manufacture can think of, and the mitigation for being administered on the wrong patient is often "Don't sell to non ISO-13485 approved clients" If enough people get injured because of your product, the FDA or MHRA is going to investigate you, no matter how many disclaimers you put on your products.