When our pedendo became suspicious of the suspension, he simply kept watch on the patients, he didn’t switch them to pills. It was only after my son’s severe adrenal crisis that he decided to switch all of his patients to the pills. At that time the response on this board was that there was nothing wrong with the suspension. Therefore any feedback Upjohn would have been getting at that time would have been mixed, some doctors reporting problems, other reporting that the patients loved it and it worked fine. It was less than a year later that the recall began. I see nothing suspect in the timing of Upjohn’s recall. If the doctors on the front lines, especially good, attentive doctors like our pedendo, didn’t catch on to the problem until then, I can hardly imagine Upjohn would have been negligent when they were receiving positive feed back at the same time. I canremember people posting back that they asked their doctors about the suspension, and were told that there was nothing wrong with it. Pedendos would be the very first to notice and report any problems with the medication (or at least should have been) yet many were saying that their patients had no problems with it.

If they make a law that pharmaceutical companies must hire mind-readers and fortune-tellers, then I could see maybe blaming them, otherwise I don’t see any negligence.