Hmm, the anti-depressant thing is interesting. I remember a former co-worker of mine lost her sister-in-law because of a crazy drug interaction several years back. She was taking Paxil for depression, a pretty high dosage, and went to another doctor for a different ailment. He gave her some kind of medicine, can't remember what, but she had a bad drug interaction between the paxil and this other medication, and wound up dying. Her nervous system shut down and her husband found her on the floor, dead. Very very tragic. Don't know whatever happened with that as far as holding any of the Drs. accountable since I've completely lost touch with the co-worker, but the sister-in-law never told the other doc that she was on Paxil. Both doctors gave her office samples of the drugs, so there was never a pharmacist to catch the interaction either. This could be the case with Daniel Smith. It could be something really weird like this situation, and criminal charges could be medical negligence or something.
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