Posted by Luka62 on January 24, 2003, at 20:13:26
In reply to Re: Nardil FOUND A WAY11, posted by Jack Smith on January 24, 2003, at 19:02:04
> I can't imagine that nardil is not that profitable. Pfizer is the only company making it, there is no research costs because of how long it's been out. It really can't cost that much at all to make. The only thing I can think that would be expensive is possible liability issues because of all the interactions but I think that the warnings that the drug company gives is more than adequate to cover itself.
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I don't know exactly what the production problems Pfizer is having. I'm certainly relieved that Pfizer is doing what they need to do to drop-ship the orders expediently. This production problem has been going on, how long...several months? It had to have put a real strain on Pfizer just for having to eat the extra costs of FedEx'ing drop-ship orders to individual pharmacies, while they attempt to catch up on manufacturing Nardil.
I've been on it for 17 years, and liability issues over the last decade regarding the manufacturer are minimal because the warnings are very specific about its dangers.
Where either patients do not comply with the instructions, or physicians do not explain the risks, there you have liability issues. I.E.--the New York patient given Demerol while on Nardil. This has happened here in this state at least twice and a patient died.
I was inpatient once and was given Demerol, ordered by a resident. They knew I was on Nardil, and I coded, and was revived; I have found that perhaps because Nardil isn't prescribed as much anymore with the advent in the last 2 decades of safer meds, that many doctors-in-training, and even established physicians themselves are Not aware of the risks, potentially putting their patients in harm's way.
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