PHARMACY "FAILURE TO WARN" SUIT IN ARIZONA MAY CHANGE RULES
Executive Summary
PHARMACY "FAILURE TO WARN" SUIT IN ARIZONA MAY CHANGE RULES on pharmacist liability "for failing to counsel," pharmacist/attorney David Brushwood, University of Florida, declared during a seminar at NARD's mid-October convention in Boston. Brushwood maintained that an Arizona appellate court's 1994 reversal of a summary judgment dismissal in Lasley v. Shrake changes "the general rule" established by post-1986 case law that "pharmacists do not have a general duty to warn" patients about potential adverse effects from prescription drugs.