translation.en: These drugs were brought to market. They were prescribed very widely because heart attacks are a very common thing, and it took so long for us to find out that these drugs also caused an increased rate of death that before we detected that safety signal, over 100,000 people died unnecessarily in America from the prescription of anti-arrhythmic drugs.
translation.zh: 这些药物被投入市场，并被 广为使用，因为心脏病是种很常见的病。 我们花了很长时间才意识到这些药物 致使患者死亡率上升。 在我们发现到这一点之前， 美国十万多条本可挽留的生命就因 使用这种抗心律不齐药物而失去。