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12 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y & Ethics J. 423 (2013-2014)
Failing to Warn in the Context of Rare Side Effects

handle is hein.journals/cardplp12 and id is 457 raw text is: FAILING TO WARN IN THE CONTEXT OF RARE SIDE EFFECTS Morris Dweck* The act of Choice that can be determined by pure Reason, consti- tutes the act of Free-will. That act which is determinable only by Inclination as a sensuous impulse or stimulus would be irrational brute Choice (arbitrium brutum).... The Freedom of the act of voli- tional Choice, is its independence of being determined by sensuous impulses or stimuli. This forms the negative conception of the Free- will. The positive Conception of Freedom is given by the fact that the Will is the capability of Pure Reason to be practical of itself.' INTRODUCTION .............................................. 424 I. THE DUTY OF A DRUG MANUFACTURER .............. 426 A. Balancing the Risks and the Benefits .............. 426 B. The General Duty to Warn ..................... 429 i. Rarity of Occurrence and the Duty to Warn... 430 ii. Adverse Reaction Reports ..................... 433 II. THE LEARNED INTERMEDIARY DOCTRINE ............. 436 A. Exceptions to the Learned Intermediary Doctrine ..... 438 III. A DOCTOR'S DUTY TO WARN ........................ 439 A. The Standard of Review in the Medical Profession.... 440 i. The New York Standard ................... 441 B. Plaintiffs Burden of Proof in an Informed Consent Claim... ........................ ...... 442 IV. CURRENT CASE LAW IN NEW YORK DEALING WITH RARE SIDE EFFECTS .................................. 443 V. INTERPRETING STATISTICS AND CREATING A LIABILITY SCALE................................................ 449 A. The Affect Heuristic ............................... 450 B. The Statistical Liability Scale....................... 453 CONCLUSION ................................................. 456 * J.D. Candidate, 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Notes Editor, Cardozo Pub- lic Law, Policy & Ethics journal; B.A., 2010, Macaulay Honors College, Brooklyn College. Thank you to Professor Ekow Yankah for his guidance in writing this Note. 1 IMMANUEL KANT, THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW: AN EXPOSITION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF JURISPRUDENCE AS THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT 13, (William Hastie trans., Edin- burgh, T. & T. Clark 1887), available at http://books.google.com/books?id= FakeAQAAMAAJ &printsec=frontcover&source=gbsge-summary-r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. 423

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