Medication Errors

Most patients are not familiar with the prescription drugs and dosages that should be used to treat medical conditions.  That is why we rely on doctors to prescribe the most appropriate drug and in the correct dosage.  When we are in the hospital, we also…

Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions that harm hospitalized children have gotten more publicity since the case involving Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins in 2007.  Quaid’s twins were given 1,000 times the common dosage of a blood thinner at the hospital.  This case is…