[NPInfo] Chantix... "not my patient"

[Nbalkon at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/19/2008 6:15:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
prispunnyfnp at metrocast.net writes:

I had a  “young“ 58 yo male pt die of a hemorrhagic stroke 3 days after
starting  Chantix.  He had many co-morbidities (not my pt but his wife is  and
he’s well known to our group- - used to see the doc I work with) but  thought
I’d poll the group in case others had anything like this.   Should I call the
company?
I know of the other se’s but couldn’t help  but wonder if related somehow.

Thanks,

Priscilla Merrill  FNP


READING this again.... I'm struck that that this was "not my  pt".... yet you 
write "Should I call the company?".....  Pardon, but "this  is not your 
patient"...  My premise in my earlier mail is supported even  further.  It's not 
YOUR place to notify the company... It's the  responsibility of clinician's of 
record. 

 
Nancy Balkon,  PhD, ANP-C, APRN-CS, NPP
Southern New York State Representative --  AANP
Clinical Associate Professor, Stony Brook University School of  Nursing



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