A Kentucky hospital caused the death of a woman after she was given an overdose of a prescribed medication. The error was the result of the nursing staff not being unable to read the doctor’s handwriting in the patient’s chart. Rather than ask for clarification…
The lawsuit against Walgreens pharmacy was filed by a woman who was given the wrong prescription drug medication that nearly killed her. According to medical investigations, a Walgreens pharmacist was found to have made a major pharmacy error when the customer’s prescription medication for seizures…
Walgreen’s pharmacy has been sued several times in the last decade over medication errors. The company has often fought to keep these lawsuits secrete by asking judges to issue gag orders in prescription error lawsuits. Such gag orders are a danger to the public and…
Pharmacy errors are much more common than Americans realize. In the U.S. alone, there are billions of prescriptions filled every year. Unfortunately, medication mistakes occur daily and affect up to 15% of all prescription medicine filled at or dispensed by hospitals, pharmacies, and/or physicians’ offices….
Why are prescription mistakes on the rise in Kentucky? The statistics are alarming. Kentucky ranks high on the list of states experiencing and increase in medication errors. While most prescription errors are usually caught in time, some unfortunately are not. Often times, a simple mistake…
According to a nurse who authored an article about her terrible experience dealing with a medication error she made when she gave a Tylenol #4 rather than a Tylenol #3 while working in the surgery department of a hospital, she recalls how upset she was…