A Doctor Comments on Compounding Medications:

Kenneth Woliner, MD said...

Doctors and hospitals should have lobbied for laws to protect them from liability in exchange for agreeing to only use FDA registered outsourcing facilities. The hospital, the clinic it partly-owned, and the doctors working at that clinic, "tool a chance", by using a compounding pharmacy, not an FDA-licensed manufacturer, to buy sterile injectable drugs, all to save a few dollars in their purchasing costs, so they could have a wider profit margin. Those drugs wound up not being sterile, patients were harmed (and some of these patients died), and the hospital will now be held responsible. They lost the gamble, and now will have to pay up