Arrhythmia
"This drug killed my mom.  She was recuperating from heart surgery and developed afib, which I understand is not unusual.  Rather, than prescribing a safer drug, her cardiologist prescribed Amiodarone - the drug of last resort. We did not even know that he had prescribed this drug until she was showing certain side effects such as coughing, weakness, swelling, inability to sleep, etc.  Only after I said that maybe there is a conflict in the drugs she was given did another cardiologist take my mom off of Amiodarone.  But it was too late - the damage was done.  She went into the hospital on October 21st and never came out, dying - no, suffocating to death from lung toxicity on December 19th.  Amiodarone and the cardiologist&#039;s neglect killed my"