Why Not Adverse Drug Reactions?
• Albert D. Viener, Esq., None • None 95 Merrick Way, Suite 440, Coral Gables, Florida 33134 To whom it may concern: It is as once alarming, disappointing and predicatable that your article does not raise the issue of symptoms that cannot be explained by disease, being explained by adverse drug reactions. I am the victim of medical malpractice and a severe, permanent and disabling adverse reactions to a prescription drug – Cipro. I have taken it upon myself to learn about drug adverse drug reactions (ADR’s) in general and fluoroquinolones in particular. Dr. David Flockhart, Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Indiana, who has been characterized as the preeminent expert on fluoroquinolone ADR’s, has expressed his opinion that 1 of 3 users of fluoroquinolone antibiotics suffers some measure of central nervous system (CNS) ADR. It is well established that fluorine and quinine are neurotoxic. (I have no doubt that numerous other fluorinated drugs, as well as drugs cont
