Pharmacy errors

Pharmacy errors can occur on just about any prescription issued by a doctor or nurse.  Many errors in prescriptions come from the pharmacist being unable to read or discern the writing for the prescription.  While doctors should be required to write as legibly as possible, pharmacists are suppose to verify what is written if there is any discrepancy.  Many times pharmacists are careless and simply guess or use their best estimate to determine what is written for the prescription causing sometimes fatal injuries.

In addition to poor writing, the numbers may be off for the amount that should be prescribed.  For instance perhaps the doctor prescribed for the patient to have .05 milligrams of a particular drug, but in the pharmacists haste they read it as .50 milligrams.  This could have devastating effects and often times results in injuries that cannot be recovered from depending on the drug.

Another Orange County Pharmacy Error occurs when pharmacists fail to ensure that the patient does not have any allergies to the medication and understands when and how to take it.  If an Orange County Pharmacist does not verify these important details serious injury could follow.

Finally drugs with similar names may get mixed up causing very serious problems with the patients the drugs are issued to.  It is a pharmacists duty to be careful when filling prescriptions, there is an undeniable reliance that the prescription that is handed to you over the county is what the doctor prescribed and in the correct measurements.