>>16732496
>So you are counting every dismissed lawsuit with no merit as positive malpractice examples?
Correct. See: Feynman estimate"
>Not even if the risks and doses they were warned and prescribed were based on fraud such as with oxycontin?
Can you find examples of people taking the prescribed dose and overdosing?
>>16732496
>Except it almost always was because the doctors were lying about the drugs because the producers were lying to the doctors.
The oxycontin case was about the industry lying with regard to dependency. I'm not personally aware of lies in regard to toxicity but I could be wrong. See my second point in this post about that.
>>16732496
>Because there were several states that were allowing doctors to way way way overprescribe to the point that a national black market trade was quite profitable.
This is a fun point to argue. After "the opioid crisis" became the meme it now is, many patients with chronic pain have to fight for adequate dosage.
Pain management is an issue I'm willing to disregard outright for this debate. Pain is a subjective phenomenon and sometimes doctors are duped.
If a patient lied about how much pain they were in, it is the doctors' job nowadays (though I think it shouldn't be) to test if they're lying out their ass.
Modern regulations have made it harder for people with genuine need to get the pain meds they need while the underlying problem of people selling surplus meds is not addressed.
It's a real problem and I honestly cannot give you a solution.