Despite the many regulations, rules and precautions set in place to keep patients safe, medication mistakes still happen at a disturbing rate throughout the nation. Medication mistakes happen when physicians, hospitals, pharmacies or other medical professionals prescribe and administer the wrong drug, the wrong amounts, dangerous combinations, or drugs that the patients are allergic to.

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Examples of medication errors include, but are not limited to the following:

• Overdose
• Allergic reaction
• Hazardous medication combinations
• Neglect to monitor dosages

Unreadable handwriting can surely be a cause in some prescription drug mistakes, but medical facilities that care about offering topnotch health services find ways to reduce medication overdoses and prescription drug mistakes. Prescription drug mistakes can be evaded with technology, adequate training, and consistent medical procedures. If only all hospitals would make the attempt to provide this level of care and crucial attention to detail.

Prescription drug mistakes account for roughly a quarter of medical malpractice claims, with neglect to administer the correct dosage being the most frequent prescription drug mistake. Nurses bear prime liability for giving prescription drugs, so nurses — along with the hospital they are employed at and the prescribing doctors — are the healthcare professionals most commonly charged with malpractice for prescription drug mistakes.
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Has a negligent doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or other medical professional made a careless mistake regarding your medication? Our medical malpractice attorneys are here to help. Contact a medical malpractice lawyer near you today to find out more about obtaining monetary compensation in a medical malpractice claim.

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Did you know?
Sometimes, the cause of a medication error is an allergic reaction.
An allergic reaction cannot be avoided if the patient is unaware of an allergy, but if the patient has provided the prescriber with a total medical history and acknowledged the allergen, it is medical malpractice to prescribe a medication that can result in fatal anaphylactic shock.