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...Penicillin G, one of the most widely used forms of the supreme antibiotic, differs from aspirin in being a prescription item, but resembles it in being free of patent, royalty and basic-research costs. Yet here again there is a huge price spread: E. R. Squibb & Sons charges the druggist $6.62 for 100 tablets of 200,000 units, while Pennex Products Co. of Verona, Pa., sells the same number, same strength, for 920. And Pennex must meet not only U.S.P. standards, but the running check on all antibiotic batches maintained by two different Government agencies...
...newest and least-known rackets in the U.S. today is the traffic in stolen, counterfeit, outdated and smuggled, substandard drugs. An honest pharmacist may unwittingly buy them from an apparently legitimate wholesaler. A crooked druggist may seek them out. So far, no regulatory agency has been able to determine how many of the billion or more prescriptions handled annually by U.S. pharmacists are filled with substandard items. But the racket is growing, and with it, the potential danger to unsuspecting patients...
...inherit property, to hold public office, to testify, to serve as a juror and to take civil service examinations. Even after he pays his debt to society, a felon may be barred for life from all sorts of positions requiring a license or unsullied citizenship-doctor, architect, soldier, barber, druggist, liquor salesman, union officer, veterinarian...
...less under their generic names. Drug by drug, Dr. Burack lists many of the most widely used medications, gives their brand names and lists the prices charged for them. For example, he cites penicillin G, sold by E. R. Squibb & Sons as Pentids at a price to the druggist of $6.62 per 100, but for 92? by Pennex Products Co., and by 15 other companies for less than $2. Or digitalis, sold as Pil-Digis by Davies, Rose-Hoyt at $18.40 per 1,000, but by Merck Sharp & Dohme at $2.50. Dr. Burack urges patients to ask their doctors...
Subtle Compromise. Even though causation in fact is essential to liability, it does not determine it. In addition, there must be legal or "proximate" cause, a complex mixture of fact, law and social policy. In Indiana recently, a druggist sold liquor to a teen-age boy who then rendered a child paraplegic as the result of a drunken auto accident. When the child's guardian sued the druggist, he had to establish that the liquor sale was not too remote from the accident to constitute "proximate cause." Fortunately for the plaintiff, the Indiana Supreme Court agreed, choosing...