Expert Testimony on Tequin
What follows is a sampling of quotes from people knowledgeable about Tequin and its various symptoms and side effects, and the resultant lawsuits:
“Speaking as a clinician, I would never prescribe this drug.”
—Dr. David Juurlink of the Institute for Clinical and
Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, who has urged other
doctors to stop prescribing Tequin
“This represents a unique danger in the absence of a unique benefit. There is more than enough reason to think about petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to ban [Tequin], and we probably will.”
—Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen’s
Health Research Group
“[Tequin ] is commonly used and is associated with a potentially life-threatening medical problem…. We have a number of antibiotics that treat the same infections and don’t cause the same problems. If it were me, I wouldn’t want to take it or have a family member take it. There are other alternatives that are safer to take.”
—Dr. Laura Y. Park-Wyllie of the Institute for Clinical
Evaluative Sciences at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto
“For every indication for [Tequin], there are safer, equally effective and less costly alternatives.”
—Dr. Jerry Gurwitz of the Meyers Primary Care
Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts