Pharmacy Dispensing Error Sends Autistic Child to the Emergency Room
We recently wrote about how pharmacy mistakes can cause injuries and deaths for unsuspecting patients, many who believed they were receiving the correct medications. A recent pharmacy mistake that sent an autistic North Carolina child to the hospital serves as a reminder that medication errors also affect children. According to the mother, her autistic son… Read more »
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How Pharmacy Mistakes Harm Patients and Destroy Lives
Medical negligence can affect patients inside and outside of hospitals. Pharmacy mistakes are horrific because patients take medications believing it will help alleviate symptoms, but instead suffer frightening or fatal side effects. There are several reasons why pharmacy mistakes happen. Pills can look identical or have similar sounding names. Doctors are known for having awful… Read more »
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The Terrifying Effects of Off-Label Use: What Patients Should Know
When patients receive prescriptions from their doctors, there should be an expectation their medications are safe to use. Unfortunately, off-label uses for medications are becoming increasingly popular, jeopardizing the safety of patients. Some patients will deliver children with birth defects and others will suffer severe allergic reactions. In worse case scenarios, patients will lose their… Read more »
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Pharmacy Crawl Leaves Florida Patients in Severe Pain
Florida’s victory over pill mills has created a situation where patients with legitimate pain problems cannot access their medications. Prior to 2010, Florida pill mills prescribed powerful opiate-based medications to anyone with enough money. The crackdown on pill mills has created unanticipated problems for real pain patients. Pharmacies afraid of legal and financial consequences are… Read more »
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Why Are Florida Pharmacies Refusing To Fill Prescriptions?
The Florida Board of Pharmacy recently convened to discuss if patients are being denied legitimate prescriptions to control pain. Pharmacists are allegedly afraid of prescribing opiate-based pain medications to patients who might be hiding substance abuse problems. With accidental overdoses from powerful prescription medications killing tens of thousands every year, the reluctance is not surprising…. Read more »
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Are Pharmacy Mistakes a Common Occurrence?
Millions of Americans depend on taking medication to treat physical or mental illnesses, whether it is for a bad back or depression. However, some of these unsuspecting patients may be at risk for injury or death if they receive the wrong dosage or medication from their pharmacy. According to the Institute of Safe Medication Practices,… Read more »
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Can More Be Done to Prevent Medication Errors?
With more Americans than ever using smartphones, several qualified parties have developed apps that can help patients identify and learn about the medications they are taking. Former physicians and the federal government are among these groups attempting to create a safer means for taking medications. The National Institutes of Health is working on an app… Read more »
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Has Accidental Overdose Become a Leading Cause of Death In the United States?
Pill mills have been a serious problem in Florida, leading to tens of thousands of accidental overdoses on dangerous opiate medications. Florida is not the only state that has an issue with overprescribing pain pills, as a recent grand jury indictment of a Kentucky doctor shows. After five patients died of accidental overdose from medications… Read more »
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Can a Medication-Related Suicide Be Considered Malpractice?
A 24-year-old Marine veteran in Florida’s Broward County committed suicide by drug overdose after being unable to cope with a breakup, a dying dog and his lack of direction following his service in the Marines. His family blamed the suicide on the medications he received from the Veterans Association Outpatient Clinic, where he was treated… Read more »
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Can Overprescription Be a Sign of Medical Malpractice?
The Florida Department of Health has accused Dr. Edward Neil Feldman, a pain management physician, of dispensing potentially lethal strengths and quantities of pain medications like oxycodone, muscle relaxers like Soma, and anti-anxiety drugs like Valium to patients. Dr. Feldman was recently indicted in three drug-related deaths and charged with hiding a $6,000,000 conspiracy. In… Read more »
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