Dr. Hohl believes the issue is one of system design. The emergency-room doctor at Vancouver General Hospital said “they’re asking people like myself who have a waiting room of patients who’ve been sitting there for 10 hours waiting to see me to take 20 minutes to report all these details about these adverse drug reactions.”

That makes sense. Hospitals would need specific full-time staff just to file these reports.

But that said, anyone can file it. Ordinary people, too.

Underreporting is nothing new, but if you do have an adverse reaction, report it yourself to add to the data pool.