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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders
Claude 3 5 Sonnet's response to the 'Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders' challenge.
?Prompt
You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has just been flagged by your internal research team: a rare but serious side effect (liver failure in approximately 1 in 8,000 patients over 5 years) was missed in clinical trials and is not in the current warnings. Your legal team says formal regulatory reporting would take 6 months. Your stock price would likely drop 40% on disclosure. Three board members are pushing to "wait for more data." You have a board meeting in 48 hours and a scheduled earnings call in 72 hours. What do you do in the next 48 hours? Provide a specific, hour-by-hour action plan. Consider legal liability, ethical obligations, financial implications, PR strategy, patient safety, employee morale, and regulatory relationships. Explain the reasoning behind each decision.
Response
Here's my 48-hour action plan as CEO:
IMMEDIATE (Hours 0-4):
- Call emergency meeting with Chief Medical Officer, Chief Legal Officer, and Head of Drug Safety
- Direct immediate preparation of safety alert to healthcare providers
- Initiate full data review of all cases
- Begin drafting regulatory disclosure documents
- Contact outside counsel specializing in FDA/pharmaceutical law
Hours 4-12:
- Meet with PR/Communications team to draft public statements and stakeholder communications
- Begin preparing detailed presentation for board meeting
- Contact key opinion leaders in pain management for independent assessment
- Direct Finance team to prepare various financial impact scenarios
- Set up hotline for healthcare provider questions
Hours 12-24:
- Review preliminary data analysis
- Draft detailed patient safety protocol
- Prepare internal employee communication strategy
- Contact insurance carriers
- Begin drafting earnings call script addressing the issue
Hours 24-48:
- Finalize board presentation emphasizing patient safety obligation
- Complete initial healthcare provider safety alert
- Prepare regulatory submission framework
- Finalize crisis communication plan
- Schedule emergency meetings with key institutional investors
Key reasoning:
- Patient safety must come first - both ethically and for long-term business viability
- Quick, transparent disclosure builds trust with regulators
- Proactive communication reduces legal liability
- Short-term stock impact is less important than maintaining regulatory relationships
- Clear employee communication maintains morale and prevents leaks
I would proceed with immediate disclosure despite the financial impact. Delaying could result in:
- Additional patient deaths
- Criminal liability for executives
- Catastrophic reputational damage
- Larger stock drop when eventually disclosed
- Destroyed regulatory relationships
- Massive litigation exposure
The key is to control the narrative through proactive disclosure while demonstrating clear commitment to patient safety above all else.
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About Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Capabilities
Categories
Specifications
- Provider
- Anthropic
- Released
- 2024-06-01
- Size
- LARGE
- Parameters
- Not disclosed
- Context
- 200,000 tokens
