Why is a lack of scientific research on humans construed as proof of a drug's safety, simply because the doctor's who use Tobradex claim they've found it to be safe in their small number of unauthorized human trials, typically undertaken without the patient's informed consent of the risks involved? How do we even know they're telling us the truth, when to admit to their role in deafening a patient would open them up to a lawsuit? I am sure the doctor who poisoned me has not admitted it to anyone.
Meanwhile, the poisoned, permanantly impaired patients like me have no recourse because we have no malpractice case, unless an otolaryngologist will speak out agianst the use of Tobradex in the ear, which none will do, because too many of them still use the drug, for it's use to be considered outside of the standard of care, even though it has been proven to make people deaf. Legally, it doesn't matter if the drug is safe. If some doctors are using it, it's use is considered to be within the standard of care, therefore there is no malpractice, no matter how badly the patient was injured, or lied to by the doctor.
Shouldn't a drug be proven to be safe through documented, scientific, clinical trials before doctors are allowed promote the drug's safety to their patients? Why are doctors allowed to use their patients as human guinea pigs, without the patient's consent, then hide behind the wall of patient confidentiality, as a means of covering up the lives they've permanently damaged? Why is there so much concern for protecting doctors when, so little protection of patient's rights exists?
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