John Adriani (December 2, 1907 – June 14, 1988) was an American anesthesiologist and director of anesthesiology at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
[3][1] As a medical student, Adriani, who remembered receiving only one anesthesia-related lecture in school, experienced the death of one of his patients from a poorly understood complication, malignant hyperthermia.
The hospital had been constructed two years earlier, and its anesthesia services were disorganized, with poorly trained personnel often administering the anesthetic to patients in the operating room.
Adriani resisted, telling an ABA official that he would bring a case in federal court if they revoked his certification.
[6] In the late 1960s, Adriani received an appointment to head the Bureau of Medicine at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
However, the FDA appointment was withdrawn based on pressure from the pharmaceutical industry because of controversial statements that Adriani made about drug labeling.