http://www.johnfloydlegal.com/Medical-Malpractice/Medication-Errors.shtml
Medication Errors
Medication errors are a significant cause of injuries, complications and even fatalities in the medical malpractice context. Nothing is more alarming than discovering you received the wrong medication or wrong dosage.
Medication errors such as drug overdoses, incorrect administration, inaccurate dosages or missed doses can result in serious health problems
Pharmacists can also be held liable for malpractice if they dispense an incorrect prescription or dosage. They can also be responsible for missing critical drug interactions that are harmful or fatal to the patient.
So if a Pharmacists denies to fill a valid Rx or makes a pt wait three days without pain medication… is being thrown into withdrawal and elevated pain considered a “serious health problem” ?
It would seem that from the copy on this attorney’s website… the answer would be YES !
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I have had my Norco’s filled at the same pharmacy for a year. Now, this time they keep pushing the date out. I’m out and need my pain meds. They are telling me there is a shortage. All of a sudden….is it true. I’m ready to hobble over there.
Onenanddone00….I have one more than one occasion held off filling a Coumadin or a blood pressure or a diabetic medication for a couple of days because the either the DOSE OR DIRECTIONS WERE NOT CLEAR and I was waiting for the patients physician’s office to return my fax or call to clarify. While I and the patient saw the need for an immediate response, unfortunately, not all physician offices felt the same and yes I have had to call several times AND have the patient call to get a response…now THAT’S CRAZY!
Agreed.
Oh, and in case no one has told you in a while, you guys are so appreciated by many customers who sneak in quietly, stand in line patiently, have cards in hand, and don’t need a gazillion things cashed up.
I only ever have to pick up MTX, folic, and VitD for my son’s Crohns, and dang. My pharmacist just looks beat down every time. He won’t even make eye contact anymore. It’s obvious and uncomfortable.
I appreciate you guys manning the front line in retail pharm.
Funny, PS does not talk about articles where the pharm is refusing to fill a script of coumadin, which really IS life threatening.
No, rather, the patient is ‘in pain’ for three days instead. Are they breathing? Blood circulating? Enough energy to curse the pharm? They are fine no matter what the lawyers say.
Coumadin, on the other hand, not so much.
Let’s get real about what is life threatening and what is not and what is cause for true liability and what is not.
No. Calling bullshit on this one. We only hear these stories about PAIN MED patients. Why is that? Pain med patients scream the loudest yet blood pressure medication patients are more than willing to say, “Yeah, I can wait a couple days, it’s good.”
Crazy world.
It’s not only pain meds. Just seems funny that I’m never out of my Thyroids, which is life threatening without them. Never out of my high blood pressure, which is life threatening without them. My diabetes medicine is always in stock. But somehow, they always manage to mess around with pain meds. That’s the point. The impact without them is the same as the rest.
Then HOW AND WHY r these idiots still doing this to patients 3 years later?????and why wont any of these attorneys sue these ahole,pharmacists?