Doctor: FDA Approved Drug A 'Time Bomb'

Iraq veteran Chuck Gregg was back home with his family last winter when he got Bronchitis. His doctor prescibed ketek, a relatively ne antibiotic, five days later, Gregg was in hospital with liver failure.

" they ran thier battery of tests, and they came back and its definitely whats called 'drug induced' or 'pharmesutically induced hepatitis," Gregg explains " based on the data available to me, i believe this drug is far more dangerous than other drugs that fight the same infections." said Dr. David Ross. Dr. Ross reviewed Ketek's safety for the FDA and informed his superiors that the drug was, in his words, a "time bomb". But the acting head of the agency, Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach, told employees to keep concerns about the drug in house-- and out of the press. Dr ross quit the FDA in discust. With this kind of risk to human health, i cant belive the acting head of the FDA would tell employees to keep quite about it or they could be fired, he said, " if you dont follow the team, if you dont do what your supposed to do, the first time you'll be spoken to, the second time you'll be benched, and the third time, you'll be traded."