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Torts Keyed to Epstein
Zuchowicz v. United States
Citation:
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Plaintiff filled a prescription for the drug Danocrine at the Naval Hospital pharmacy in Groton, Connecticut. The prescription wrongly told her to take 1600mg of the medicine per day, which is twice the maximum recommended dosage. Plaintiff took 1600mg each day for the next month and then dropped to 800mg for about a week. She experienced a myriad of side effects, from weight gain and edema to chest pain, dizziness, and headaches. She was then examined by a OB/GYN who instructed her to stop taking the Danocrine. A few months later, she was still experiencing symptoms and was subsequently diagnosed with primary pulmonary hypertension, a rare and fatal condition with a life expectancy of 2.5 years. Plaintiff was on the waiting list for a lung transplant when she became pregnant, which made her ineligible for a transplant. She gave birth to a son soon thereafter and died one month later.
The plaintiff’s expert testified that he was confident to a reasonable certainty that the high dose of Danocrine caused the condition that killed the plaintiff.
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