The New York Times: A legal case now pending asks a question increasingly faced by the medical world -- "who should be held accountable when a company sells a flawed product that can injure or kill patients? Is it the company or the people who run it?" Five years ago, two cardiologists discovered that a company had been knowingly selling faulty heart defibrillators that short-circuited and failed, ending several times in the unnecessary death of patients... 
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