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To: one_less who wrote (80831)	7/7/2004 8:52:35 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) of 82486

Antibiotics taken with birth control pills can cause the birth control to fail, resulting in pregnancy. Few doctors who know a patient is on BC pills and who prescribe an antibiotic warn them of this effect. (There are a lot of kids out there whose first names should probably end in "mycin".) Should the doctor be held liable for his failure? Suppose it is known beforehand that pregnancy is likely to kill the woman, it does so, and the widower sues for wrongful death. Should he win? The doctor claims he did so caution the patient, but that fact is not documented in his notes. (Nurse Ratched: "If it isn't documented, it wasn't done!") The pharmacist claims he gave the patient a standard printed sheet of instructions for the antibiotic which contained the warning. The widower claims his wife never mentioned or showed such a sheet to him and he never saw it. It was not found among her effects after her death.

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