Caution! Look-alike Drugs Ahead! Many Medications Look and Sound Very Similar Many drugs have very similar-sounding names and very often have similar-looking manufacturer packaging or pills. … [Read more...]
Right Drug, Wrong Dose? What to Do If You’ve Been Given the Wrong Medication
March 1, 2016 by
HuffPost Healthy Living Over 770,000 medication mistakes occur every year, contributing to approximately 7,000 deaths in the United States. And when it comes to medications, some mistakes are … [Read more...]
Anatomy of a Prescription
February 29, 2016 by
Writing a Prescription and Whisper-Down-the-Lane A prescription is an order that is written by a physician to communicate to a pharmacist or other healthcare provider what medication is to be given … [Read more...]
There Seems to Be a Mistake with My Prescription
February 26, 2016 by
What Happens When a Mistake is Made with a Prescription? When patients report medication errors to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) that involve pharmacy dispensing, they are … [Read more...]
Diagnostic Errors: A ‘Moral, Professional and Public Health Imperative’
February 19, 2016 by
HuffPost Healthy Living By, Jay Bhatt, M.D. For years, patient safety efforts have focused on mistakes that occur during treatment, from medication errors to post-surgical complications. Since … [Read more...]
Womens’ Health Matters: A Journey Revisited
October 21, 2015 by
In the early years of my legal career, I represented women who had suffered catastrophic injuries resulting from medical errors such as delays in diagnosis of breast cancer and incorrectly-prescribed … [Read more...]
Wrong drug put in IV bag led to fatal Bend hospital error
December 8, 2014 by
St. Charles pharmacy worker in tragic sequence of events By, Wanda Moore A St. Charles Bend pharmacy worker put the wrong medication in an IV bag, leading to the fatal error that killed a … [Read more...]
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