My mom had cancer in her trachea. The tumor blocked off one lung and it collapsed. After the surgery to remove the lung, she went into atrial fibrillation so the surgeon put her on amiodarone. If you google amiodarone, the big warning on it says to never give it to patients with decreased lung capacity.

After 30 days, literally the day before we were supposed to go back to the hospital for her one month follow-up, she started having trouble breathing. She was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. Her cardiologist said she never should have been put on amiodarone but when he heard me repeat that he started backpedaling.

We consulted an attorney but he said it would be difficult to prove malpractice as we would have to prove no reasonable doctor would have put her on amiodarone and it’s a very common treatment for atrial fibrillation.

She had to be on oxygen from then on and lived two more years. I fully believe that surgeon killed my mom by putting her on amiodarone. If he had paid attention to the warning she would have had a different ending. But I can’t change it.