About The Study: The findings of this study suggests that federal prosecutors have exercised far less than their full capacity under the Park doctrine to sanction problematic corporate behavior that threatens patients and the public health. The objective of the doctrine is to protect patients from the harms of an unsafe or fraudulent medical marketplace by targeting the executives who run the drug or medical device companies that make revenues on these products while violating federal law, rather than have that risk borne by patients or impersonal corporate entities.
Authors: Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.4138)
