Baxter Executives and the Syndrome of Overconfidence in the Chin...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Wed, 03/26/2008 - 13:24

At various posts on Baxter's contaminated heparin, Roy Poses makes a number of good points. I will amplify one I consider crucial, and perhaps sentinel:

Yet Baxter International executives have not exactly been jumping forward to claim responsibility.

In a letter, again to the Chicago Tribune, Peter J Arduini, President, Medication Delivery , for Baxter International seemed to be deflecting responsibility towards Scientific Protein Laboratories and the FDA, while asserting Baxter did all it could do.

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