Comments on: Boston Legal: TV Drama Or Reality Show?

By: Lisa Van S

Lisa Van S — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:27:13 +0000

I believe you are correct…

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:09:37 +0000

Noah Wyle, I think.

By: Lisa Van S

Lisa Van S — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:06:37 +0000

FDA Reviewer

The program was ER and the actor was Noah Wiley.

By: Justice in MI

Justice in MI — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:47:02 +0000

Thank you, FDA Reviewer. It will be ‘interesting’ to see how the preemptor lobby tries to make sense of the report. I predict the following;

1. This is not really representative of the FDA (even though some very senior and experienced people are involved).

2. It’s just Waxman using it for poltical grandstanding (which avoids the reality of the report itself).

3. Nobody said the FDA couldnt use additional help (the patronizing approach, even though preemptors gutted FDAAA).

4. The devastation trial lawyers do is worse than an imperfect FDA. This is probably their best card, but we’re not talking about an “imperfect” FDA. We’re talking about an FDA that does not even begin to resemble the image of the agency that has been the foundation of the preemptors’ argument. In several specific instances, their assertions are shown to be directly contradicted by the facts.

So most of the preemption argument becomes what it always was - a shell with nothing inside.

By: FDA Reviewer

FDA Reviewer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:36:22 +0000

I think any line reviewer at FDA for any reasonable amount of time (2 yrs) and has seen the reality would agree.

By: Justice in MI

Justice in MI — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:15:27 +0000

FDA reviewer - what do you think about the report announced in the above thread? What proportion of the 2002-6 FDA line reviewers, do you think, what support these conclusions?

Thank you for your thoughts.

By: An FDA Reviewer

An FDA Reviewer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:17:10 +0000

Back in 2002 I turned on an episode of St. Elsewhere and watched Noah Riley’s character got into a rant about a drug company pushing an unsafe drug through FDA corruptly that had hurt one of their patients.

His rant was virtually identical to what I had said to another FDA reviewer that same day.

Deja vu

By: Dan A.

Dan A. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:08:25 +0000

Great point and association with this post, Ed.