Cortef steriod for a brain tumor caused me to get osteonecrosis should we sue for surgery costs?

my husband developed osteonecrosis of the knee and hip due to a steroid he was put on for a brain tumor. Now its going to reqire surgery to fix the knee and hip. Should we try to sue the medicine company for the cost of his surgery?

Are you asking if you should sue some one for treating your husbands brain tumor?

You should really only sue if your doctor did something no other doctor would have done.

One warning, the medicine company will most definatly have put this down as a possible side effect of the steriods. It is well know in the medical world that steriods have bad effects on the bones.

The onus as far as I can see should have been on the doctor prescribing you the drug to tell you or give you a leaflet to warn you.
Cept the reason you were given a steroid, the fact that you are still here to think about this must mean that the treatment was succesfull, against a lot of odds. Are you not happy that you are still here.

I had a brain tumour and I think myself lucky every day that I wake up.

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