Medication Errors
At some point in our life we all have to visit a doctor, either for our own medical treatment or for our family. Many times, a prescription will be written by your doctor to be filled only by the pharmacy. Pharmacists are hard at work to get the proper medicine prescribed by your doctor, but at times errors can happen due to poor handwriting and confusion between drugs with related names. Your doctor may well have used a wrong abbreviation and possibly miscommunicated with you pharmacist. Don't let your life and health at risk just because of miscommunication or dosage of prescribed medications.
If your doctor prescribed you the wrong medicine or medicine that cause harmful effects to you or a loved one and considering bringing a lawsuit, Contact our Brooklyn Medication Error Attorneys today!
Some Frequent Types of Medication Errors:
- unfinished Patient Information
- Unavailable Drug Information
- Miscommunication of Drug Orders
- Poor Handwriting
- Confusion Between Drugs With Similar Names
- Misuse of Zeroes and Decimal Points
- Improper Abbreviations
Studies have been done in the 90's in training hospitals to detect and estimate medications errors and found 3.13 errors for each 1,000 orders written. The high amount of orders and the nature of teaching hospitals make it a rather difficult task to get all of the medication and prescription orders correct.
If your doctor prescribed you the wrong medicine or medicine that cause harmful effects to you or a loved one and considering bringing a lawsuit, Contact our Brooklyn Medication Error Attorneys today!
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