Following is a letter I wrote and sent to Dr. Carolyn M. Clancy at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
NOEL
L. GRIESE
3852
ALLSBOROUGH DRIVE
TUCKER,
GA 30084
PHONE:
770‑496-7607 FAX: 770-493‑7232
E‑MAIL:
anvilpub@gmail.com.
October
2, 2012
Dr. Carolyn M.
Clancy
Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
Office of Communications and Knowledge Transfer
540 Gaither Road, Suite 2000
Rockville, MD 20850
Office of Communications and Knowledge Transfer
540 Gaither Road, Suite 2000
Rockville, MD 20850
Dear Dr. Clancy:
I read the New York Times story about your draft
questionnaire requesting information about medical malpractice. If your
questionnaire flyer is ready, please send one to me.
An electrophysiologist here in Atlanta gave me a death
sentence when he prescribed amiodarone for me in four different violations of
FDA guidelines. I didn’t have a life-threatening condition. The
electrophysiologist and my pulmonologist are in agreement that amiodarone
toxicity led to pulmonary fibrosis and the destruction of my lungs within five
months. While pulmonary fibrosis is not a well known disease, it kills more
people annually than breast cancer, according to one of the medical foundations
created to help victims.
I’m a journalist by background – two degrees in English, one
in journalism, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, from the University of Wisconsin.
I’ve been a professor at the Universities of Wisconsin and Georgia. I’ve had 17
books published, five dealing with medical subjects. No. 18 is just about ready
for release. It’s about medical malpractice and the pros and cons of using CT
scans for early diagnosis of lung cancer. It also presents the case for and
against the I-ELCAP research project of Dr. Claudia Henschke, who was forced
out of Weill Cornell and is now affiliated with Mount Sinai Medical Center in
New York.
If you would like to see more information about my case,
visit the blog I set up to start publicizing book 19, which, if I’m given
enough time before I die, will be about medical malpractice and amiodarone. The
blog is at http://stopamiodarone.blogspot.com/.
I’ll be adding to the base site soon as I begin writing copy for the next book.
Sincerely,
/s/ Noel L. Griese
/s/ Noel L. Griese
Noel L. Griese
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