I-Team: Experts believe new bill will lead to more pharmacy mistakes
From the article:
Just before Thanksgiving, 9-week-old, 9 pound Julian Cameron was diagnosed with RSV.
“I’ve never seen a baby so sick. He would just cough and cough and gasped for air,” said Julian’s mother Anna Cameron.
Julian was prescribed Albuterol by his doctor.
Cameron picked the medicine up from her pharmacy, took it home and gave her son the dose listed on the label.
“I could tell he was just really jittery, antsy, hyper and his heart was beating really fast,” Cameron said.
She repeated the process as prescribed.
The next day, her pediatrician ordered a refill, then the pharmacy called, telling her to stop giving it to him.
This is the third investigator reporter doing a report on med errors in pharmacy.. this time it is Tampa Florida.
This reporter use to be in the Louisville,KY market as a investigator reporter and I remember one – two night report where he raked Walgreen over the coals because of a med error and what probably made it worse was the seemingly systematic methodology that they used to try and resolve the issue. As I remember, the patient was sent a “form letter” offering some $$$ to get the patient to “shut up and go away”.. This was before gift cards were common.
I have seen the enemy … and it is US!
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