Recent Posts in Prescription Error Category
Posted on May 10, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Every day, patients around the developed world put their trust in pharmacists. These men and women have gone through years of schooling and training and know more about medications we take than we do. ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Over the past few years, more and more doctors have stopped writing prescriptions for their patients. Instead, they dispense the necessary medicines in their offices. This process has raised some ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2012 By Scott Distasio
In 2007, New Jersey teen Scott Simon attended a party and took the Xanax another party-goer was passing out. Then 17, Simon fell into a coma after taking the drugs. Instead of calling for help, the ...
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Posted on Dec 11, 2011 By Scott Distasio
Part of a doctor's job is making sure his or her patient is not given the wrong medicines . Doctors make sure their patients are not on prescriptions that will interact badly with one another. ...
Continue reading "Home Health Patients at Higher Risk of Medication Interactions" »
Posted on Oct 25, 2011 By
Despite his pharmacology training and advocating on her behalf, Joe Graedon's mother, Helen, died when the hospital gave the wrong medication. He told caregivers repeatedly that she could not tolerate ...
Continue reading "Mother's Death Due to Hospital Drug Mistake Prompts Book" »
Posted on Oct 15, 2011 By
Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount, North Carolina has a new pharmacy team member, MACK. MACK, McKesson Automated Cartfill King, is an automated prescription dispensing system - a robot pharmacist. ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By
The downturn in the economy has affected everyone. Now not only is it affecting jobs and debt, it is interfering with some peoples' ability to get their prescription medications filled. The problem is ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 By
Florida has a reputation for being a "Pill Mill," - a state where it is relatively easy for abusers to access prescription drugs. Lawmakers have passed legislation in recent years to try to change ...
Continue reading "Florida Pharmacies Preparing for New Drug Tracking System" »
Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By
Medpagetoday.com reported on a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine on how "trade dress" may be endangering public health. "Trade Dress" is the term for aspects of a product's ...
Continue reading "Should Generic Drugs Look Like Their Brand-name Counterparts?" »
Posted on Jul 12, 2011 By
Bloomgberg.com reported recently that up to 12% of prescriptions sent electronically to pharmacies have some kind of doctor medication mistake . This is the same as the percentage of errors found in ...
Continue reading "Electronic Prescriptions May Not Reduce Prescription Errors" »
Posted on Jul 8, 2011 By
In a sister blog to this one I have discussed the potential consequences the proposed Medicaid cuts will have on Florida nursing homes . While the budget reductions will have a significant impact on ...
Continue reading "Pharmacists Concerned About Medicaid Changes" »
Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By
It is not uncommon anymore for people to go without a primary care physician or physician's group to coordinate care. It can be difficult to find a good doctor after moving or changing jobs and health ...
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Posted on Jun 26, 2011 By
The American Medical Association recently posted an article on their news site about "adverse drug events." Adverse drug events are health issues that arise as a result of taking a medication or group ...
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Posted on Jun 22, 2011 By
As a pharmacy error lawyer , I know about the damaging effects of taking the wrong medication. In some cases, it is a doctor's medication mistake . In others it is the pharmacy's fault. Business Week ...
Continue reading "Will Standardized Drug Labels Reduce Pharmacy Errors?" »
Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By
Doctor prescription errors are some of the most common errors related to medications and can often be traced back to illegible writing. Busy doctors do not also make sure the name of the medication ...
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Posted on May 4, 2011 By Scott Distasio
New York Times writer Tara Parker-Pope recently wrote about the drastic increase in Medication mistakes in recent years. In 2008, 1.9 million people were affected by Medication side effects, because ...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2011 By Scott Distasio
19 patients in 6 Alabama hospitals were infected with bacteria after using total parenteral nutrition (TPN), which is a liquid nutrition fed through an IV using a catheter. 9 of those patients died. ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2011 By Scott Distasio
Distasio law firm clients recently filed a lawsuit against Walgreens alleging an error in filling their mother's prescription medicine caused or substantially contributed to her death. Suzie ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2011 By Scott Distasio
Many Pharmacies fill more than 10,000 medication orders in one day. As part of the process pharmacists or pharmacy assistants have to sort through thousands of different medications that often look ...
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Posted on Feb 24, 2011 By
In the past I have written blogs describing ways to prevent you from becoming a victim of prescription error . The Salt Lake Tribune's Article " Make sure you get the right prescription " is a very ...
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Posted on Feb 15, 2011 By Scott Distasio
A Safeway pharmacy error may cause a pregnant woman to miscarry or have a child with severe birth defects. Mareena Silva, six weeks pregnant, was given Methotrexate, a drug that aborts early stage ...
Continue reading "Pharmacy Gives Pregnant Woman the Wrong Prescription, May Cause a Miscarriage or Birth Defects." »
Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By
The FDA reports that as many as 1.3 million people are injured each year because of prescription errors , and in an article written for WRAL.com , Dr. Allen Mask reports that 7,000 of those people are ...
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