Prescription Error Lawyers
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A prescription error occurs when a pharmacy does not properly dispense the medication to the patient as prescribed. It can also occur when a health care professional does not prescribe an appropriate medication or dosage.
Many times when prescriptions are filled, the side effects or interactions with other drugs are not explained clearly to the patient. The patient may have been accidentally overdosed or prescribed the wrong medicine. If this kind of negligence occurs, the patient may be severely injured, or may even die.
The American Hospital Association lists the following as some common types of prescription errors:
- Incomplete patient information: Failing to determine patients' allergies, other medications they are taking, previous diagnoses, and lab results;
- Failing to provide adequate drug information such as current warnings;
- Miscommunication of prescription information: This error can involve poor handwriting, confusion between drugs with similar names, misuse of zeroes and decimal points, confusion of metric and other dosing units, and inappropriate abbreviations;
- Lack of appropriate labeling as the prescription is prepared and repackaged into smaller units.
If you have concerns about whether a you or a loved one are the victim of a prescription error, you owe it to yourself and your family to find out for sure. Contact an attorney at Fuller & Fuller for a FREE consultation. Fuller & Fuller serves people whose claims arose in the states of Washington and Oregon.
You have nothing to lose by consulting an attorney. It is always in your best interest to learn about your legal options and make sure that your legal rights are preserved. A medical malpractice case is also about righting a wrong, holding the medical community responsible, and raising the level of care so that the same thing does not happen to another patient.
Fuller & Fuller is a family of medical malpractice and serious injury lawyers serving residents of Washington and Oregon.
