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Originally Posted by losing touch.
i know it says that they've offered to pay medical expenses, but surely she could get some sort of compensation for this? especially if it does end up harming/killing the baby.
i still think she has some of the blame here - but i can see how you would put your trust in a medical professional. easy mistake to make i suppose, but you'd have thought being pregnant would make her extra, extra cautious.
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I agree a compensation should be in order, however, if the baby is harmed or dies before birth, it needs to be proven that it occurred because of the medication mix-up. People can inherit harmful diseases or mutations, be exposed to toxins, the mother can provide malnutrition or harmful substances, etc... . So while a compensation should occur, somehow the pharmacy needs to know the harm was due only to the medications and absolutely nothing else. That's hard to prove because the mother can say she cared properly yet the baby ended up malformed or impaired and the pharmacy would only have the mother's word to go on.
Furthermore, if the medications do contribute to the harm or death of the fetus along with the fact the mother ingested harmful substances or the fetus inherited diseases or a random mutation occurred, somehow the pharmacy needs to know how much the medications contributed. If there haven't been many studies to use to see the effects on humans, then there's no reliable data to use and it's down to medical insight. But if both are present, then giving full compensation is ignorantly downplaying the other effects that occurred.