Eldridge v. Eli Lilly & Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “A pharmacist owes a duty of ordinary care in practicing his profession, but such care requires the highest degree of prudence, thoughtfulness and diligence, and it is proportioned to the danger involved”
• because “[t]he propriety of a prescription depends not only on the propensities of the drug but also on the patient’s condition” to fulfill such a duty the “pharmacist would have to interject himself into the doctor-patient relationship and practice medicine without a license”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).