[lbo-talk] new frontiers in labor saving technological change

[Eubulides]

The attorney for Meredith McCoyd, one of four former Abbott sales
representatives whose whistleblower lawsuits prompted the
investigation, said the company offered nursing homes a second
rationale.

“Abbott directed its sales force to get Depakote widely used in
nursing homes, principally to neutralize older patients as a
substitute for proper staffing,” attorney Reuben Guttman said in a
statement. “Abbott essentially preyed on . . . the most helpless
patient populations.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/abbott-laboratories-agrees-to-16-billion-settlement-over-marketing-of-depakote/2012/05/07/gIQAh5098T_story.html