why didn’t she read her label? It would have said what the drug was for. If you’re pregnant it’s your responsibility to read the labels of EVERYTHING you put into your body.If the doctor didn’t write clearly, and his handwriting LOOKED like the chemotherapy drug, there’d be no reason to question it. Just another reason why every doctor should have a computer print the scripts.
They wouldnt have been able to catch the error had it been wrong pill in wrong bottle. therefore, as tragic as the incident is, she is partially responsible. As is the doctor who must have had horrible handwriting.
Typically, only suspicious scripts are verified with the doctor. as time passes, techs and pharmacists alike can learn how doctors write. If a tech and a pharmacist agreed that the doctor wrote for the chemo drug, there would be no reason to verify. Did anyone consider that perhaps the doctor wrote for the wrong drug? I’ve seen the doctor write for the wrong drug countless times.
I’m with you JJ. I have PCOS and I’m 35 yrs old and still trying to get pregnant. If this happened to me, I’d sue for all I could get, the company and the person that filled it too. But that’s beside the point. I use to go to Eckerds, and I have 2 blood pressure pills I use to take, I went in to pick them up, asked if I had any questions, I said no. Why would I, I’ve been taken these for years. I get home, go to take them, and I notice that I got what I was suppose to, but the pills were in the wrong bottles. This could have been a deadly mistake. I got back in the car, and went back to the store, I told the woman at the counter that the drugs were right but they were in the wrong bottle. I didn’t complain I just wanted this fixed. But the guy was fired and as far as I know never working in another pharmacy again. But what if I hadn’t know what the pill looks like? I could have died from a over dose, because one of those two pills I take two of, and if I had taken them, I’d taken two very strong pills. But I didn’t. I always read my bottles and I read the print outs I get from the pharmacy every time. I look at my pills to make sure they look right, if they don’t I ask why. But this lady being pregnant, should have read the print out, and read the bottle, it could have saved her baby’s life. But I do hope she gets everything she should. The company and the individual should pay. They KILLED a unborn child.
I go to a doctor that uses a computer to write the scrip. I feel that every doctor should be required to have one. It saves lives and time. My ob/gyn doesn’t have one, and she has the worest handwriting of any doctor I’ve ever been too. I ask questions about the drugs she’s given me and I check my pills before I leave the pharmacy to make sure I have what I’m suppose to have. This chick isn’t going to have the same mistake twice.
No a pharmacist is not an MD, but neither are PAC (nurse pracitioners) or LPN (not even a nurse) or RNs who write the prescriptions most of the time. And a pharmacist goes for school for 8 years…they get a doctor of pharmacy degree. just like your college professor is typically a doctor of their field.
The error wouldn’t have been made if Walgreens actually made an effort to follow the OBRA-90 laws in place. Pharmacists are required to counsel on a new prescription. If the pharmacist would have talked to the patient at all, the mistake could have easily been caught.
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why didn’t she read her label? It would have said what the drug was for. If you’re pregnant it’s your responsibility to read the labels of EVERYTHING you put into your body.If the doctor didn’t write clearly, and his handwriting LOOKED like the chemotherapy drug, there’d be no reason to question it. Just another reason why every doctor should have a computer print the scripts.
They wouldnt have been able to catch the error had it been wrong pill in wrong bottle. therefore, as tragic as the incident is, she is partially responsible. As is the doctor who must have had horrible handwriting.
Typically, only suspicious scripts are verified with the doctor. as time passes, techs and pharmacists alike can learn how doctors write. If a tech and a pharmacist agreed that the doctor wrote for the chemo drug, there would be no reason to verify. Did anyone consider that perhaps the doctor wrote for the wrong drug? I’ve seen the doctor write for the wrong drug countless times.
lastbat: a pharmacist is not a MD.
I’m with you JJ. I have PCOS and I’m 35 yrs old and still trying to get pregnant. If this happened to me, I’d sue for all I could get, the company and the person that filled it too. But that’s beside the point. I use to go to Eckerds, and I have 2 blood pressure pills I use to take, I went in to pick them up, asked if I had any questions, I said no. Why would I, I’ve been taken these for years. I get home, go to take them, and I notice that I got what I was suppose to, but the pills were in the wrong bottles. This could have been a deadly mistake. I got back in the car, and went back to the store, I told the woman at the counter that the drugs were right but they were in the wrong bottle. I didn’t complain I just wanted this fixed. But the guy was fired and as far as I know never working in another pharmacy again. But what if I hadn’t know what the pill looks like? I could have died from a over dose, because one of those two pills I take two of, and if I had taken them, I’d taken two very strong pills. But I didn’t. I always read my bottles and I read the print outs I get from the pharmacy every time. I look at my pills to make sure they look right, if they don’t I ask why. But this lady being pregnant, should have read the print out, and read the bottle, it could have saved her baby’s life. But I do hope she gets everything she should. The company and the individual should pay. They KILLED a unborn child.
I go to a doctor that uses a computer to write the scrip. I feel that every doctor should be required to have one. It saves lives and time. My ob/gyn doesn’t have one, and she has the worest handwriting of any doctor I’ve ever been too. I ask questions about the drugs she’s given me and I check my pills before I leave the pharmacy to make sure I have what I’m suppose to have. This chick isn’t going to have the same mistake twice.
No a pharmacist is not an MD, but neither are PAC (nurse pracitioners) or LPN (not even a nurse) or RNs who write the prescriptions most of the time. And a pharmacist goes for school for 8 years…they get a doctor of pharmacy degree. just like your college professor is typically a doctor of their field.
You couldn’t sue the technician who filled it. That’s just silly. Techs fill based on the label alone.
The error wouldn’t have been made if Walgreens actually made an effort to follow the OBRA-90 laws in place. Pharmacists are required to counsel on a new prescription. If the pharmacist would have talked to the patient at all, the mistake could have easily been caught.