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Biotech / Medical : PRCY - ANY BODY HAS ANY NEWS ON THESE
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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (208)9/19/1997 10:09:00 AM
From: Peter H. Proctor   of 670
 
What may finally get this stock going is summarized in a recent post to the alt.baldspot news group. Here, a recent hair transplant patient is threatening to sue his surgeon because he did not tell him about the probability of the hair around the plugs falling out.

There is a general rule in medical malpractice that a physician is neglegent in not taking a step that wounld lower the morbidity associated with a medical procedure, even if the probablity of that step helping is low. Naturally, this must be balenced against the possibility of harm from the ameliorative step. The classic example is the MRI scan.

The tort is called "loss of chance" or something like that. So, as a practical matter, if there is a non-hazardous way of lowering the sequelae of hair transplant surgery, the docs really have to offer it to the patient, given enough time to have learned about it, etc. Once the transplant docs figure this out, you are probably going to find Graftcyte <R> offered to most hair transplant candidates. I doubt it will ever get this far, but I can practically guarantee it after the first lawsuit is filed because a doc did not offer the agent.

BTW, this purely theoretical discussion does not authorize any infrngments of various patents, etc.

Dr. P
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