The American health care system is undermined, underserved, and undervalued when labeling is written more for corporate liability protection than as a valuable tool for health care providers. Today, labeling includes excessive risk information and exaggerated warnings. And this has set into motion a dangerous dynamic — labeling that does not accurately communicate to either the health care professional or the patient the conditions in which any given product can be used safely and effectively. This is nothing less than a grave menace to the public health. Labeling for liability is health care terrorism.
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