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Letters of Lawsuits and other topics
Sorry to use up a thread for this but I felt this was important.
I got an email today from someone named Annie Giannini asking if I had sustained any permanent damage from combo therapy and, if so, would I be interested in joining a class action suit.
While I understand the temptation to try that route, I feel that if HCV patients start suing drug manufacturers, the effect on research would be chilling. I don't know about anyone else, but I knew going in that there was a very real chance of major complications from tx and accepted the risk. After all the alternative was certain to have less acceptable side effects, namely, the real possibility of death from liver disease.
I am interested in all of your opinions and whether you have also been contacted. I don't know Annie Giannini and wonder how she got my address. Any ideas?
I got an email today from someone named Annie Giannini asking if I had sustained any permanent damage from combo therapy and, if so, would I be interested in joining a class action suit.
While I understand the temptation to try that route, I feel that if HCV patients start suing drug manufacturers, the effect on research would be chilling. I don't know about anyone else, but I knew going in that there was a very real chance of major complications from tx and accepted the risk. After all the alternative was certain to have less acceptable side effects, namely, the real possibility of death from liver disease.
I am interested in all of your opinions and whether you have also been contacted. I don't know Annie Giannini and wonder how she got my address. Any ideas?
I was in a class action suit against Sprint and received a check for $.17. I have gave depositions several time and she is going to have to show they intentionally meant to harm her. Over 31 years I saw a lot and accidents do occur unfortunately but I know of only one case where a doctor was sued and indicted for deliberately killing a neonate. She massaged his carotid arteries but it was a hung jury. I know doctors are busy but let me again stress, it is your legal, moral, and ethical right to know about any tx. That is the only way you can make an IMFORMED CONSENT FOR TX. This is the law. It has been left up to me too many times but I did. I will help anyone here in anyway I can and when it comes to this I know the law. I was named in a lawsuit because my name was in the chart only after I had an attorney sending this family I would sue because I saved her life twice and I wasn't going to have my good name smeared. Prayers.
O Positive is the universal donor- able to be used for people with other blood types. I think this lowers the availability of livers from people with O Pos bloodtype because they can be more widely used. That's what I read in an article from the New York Times, I think. It was about the transplant supply in the US.
Maybe somebody else knows more about it. Hope things are going well for you, Dave
Maybe somebody else knows more about it. Hope things are going well for you, Dave
Count me in. I am a liberal (no matter how the word has been debased for political purposes) and believe that it is our responsibility to try to make things better in the world. But personal responsibility, common sense and willingness to accept that sometimes things aren't fair are requirements of being an adult.
So unless Annie's doctor told her nothing, hid all product inserts from her, kept her off the Internet and out of libraries, and prevented her from writing to drug companies, other doctors, and other patients, she has no case. I am sorry for any permanent damage to her and to anyone on tx, but like the rest of you, I was warned and I did my research, and I made my decisions accordingly.
I kept my copy of her email, but did not reply. Perhaps I can sue her for the pain and suffering inflicted on me in having to realize that I, too, might have these side effects.
So unless Annie's doctor told her nothing, hid all product inserts from her, kept her off the Internet and out of libraries, and prevented her from writing to drug companies, other doctors, and other patients, she has no case. I am sorry for any permanent damage to her and to anyone on tx, but like the rest of you, I was warned and I did my research, and I made my decisions accordingly.
I kept my copy of her email, but did not reply. Perhaps I can sue her for the pain and suffering inflicted on me in having to realize that I, too, might have these side effects.
doesn't it sound like it? is that the same individual that first mentioned this lawsuit in this forum? never heard of it until then...
here is what my beautiful 30yr old daughter send me not too long ago;
"Hey, I am forwarding this email after watching a program last night about a twice convicted felon, who was serving a 14 year sentence for robbery, getting a heart transplant in California. With 7 million people
in CA with no health insurance, 1 million dollars was paid by taxpayers to cover the inmate's transplant. How does it make sense at all? I'm planning on committing a felony as I currently have a cold. Who's
with me?
Obituary>
> Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend by the name of Common Sense who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in
bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valued lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm and that life isn't always fair.
>
> Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge). His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a
classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student only worsened his condition. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
> Finally, Common sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
> Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, spilled a bit in her lap, and was awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.
> He is survived by two stepbrothers; My Rights and Ima Whiner. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still know him pass this on, if not you can give him a second death.
here is what my beautiful 30yr old daughter send me not too long ago;
"Hey, I am forwarding this email after watching a program last night about a twice convicted felon, who was serving a 14 year sentence for robbery, getting a heart transplant in California. With 7 million people
in CA with no health insurance, 1 million dollars was paid by taxpayers to cover the inmate's transplant. How does it make sense at all? I'm planning on committing a felony as I currently have a cold. Who's
with me?
Obituary>
> Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend by the name of Common Sense who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in
bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valued lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm and that life isn't always fair.
>
> Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge). His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a
classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student only worsened his condition. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
> Finally, Common sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
> Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, spilled a bit in her lap, and was awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.
> He is survived by two stepbrothers; My Rights and Ima Whiner. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still know him pass this on, if not you can give him a second death.
I agree w/ you all about a lawsuit. My sister was in on the phen-fen lawsuit and even though it did cost the company alot of money, it didn't "ruin" them and my sister has yet to see a dime. The lawyers made millions tho. John Grissom has a novel out about tort lawsuits that really tells it the way it is. Besides, I don't think I've talked to anyone here that didn't know the risks going in. In fact my husband was against tx. at first because of the risks, but I convinced him. Joni
Why do people with O-positive blood have the most difficulty getting a donor liver? I'm just curious.
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