Pharmacy Error or Prescription Mix-up?

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In an effort to maximize profits, some pharmacies are short staffed and the remaining staff is overworked. Many duties that should be done by a pharmacist are being shifted to lower paid pharmacy technicians. Unfortunately, pharmacists, under pressure due to increase profits, are working longer hours and processing more prescriptions than can accurately be filled. The pharmacy errors resulting from these working conditions can lead to personal injury and death to the consumers who rely on the pharmacy for their medications. The injuries occur when a prescription is incorrectly filled, the wrong patient name is placed on the medication, or the wrong dosage is listed. Whether the medicine itself is wrong, or the dosage is incorrect, the result can be an ineffective drug prescription that failed to treat the medical condition and caused it to progress. The result can also be death or serious injury from, in effect, poisoning with the wrong medication or wrong dosage.

There is another lesser-known situation in which pharmacists injure consumers that had not previously been addressed by Florida law. That situation deals with drug interactions. Accordingly, Florida law has recently been revised to hold pharmacists accountable for the errors they cause when they fail to consider the interaction among the drugs a patient is prescribed. Pharmacists know that certain dosages of medications and certain combinations of medicines are dangerous and potentially lethal. Florida law now recognizes a duty on the part of the pharmacist to take reasonable care – the care a reasonably prudent pharmacist would take. This includes watching for, warning and protecting the patient from these dangerous interactions. A pharmacist can no longer fill a known combination of lethal medications and then claim no responsibility. If a reasonable and prudent pharmacist should know of the danger to the consumer from drug interactions, then the pharmacist must do something to warn the patient, or contact the doctors involved, to help prevent injury to the consumer who is paying for their services and relying on their expertise.

At Wooten, Kimbrough & Normand, P.A. each Florida personal injury attorney has experience in handling claims against pharmacists for dangerous pharmacy errors. In addition to our legal expertise and financial capability, we have available knowledgeable experts in the pharmaceutical industry to assist us in taking on even the biggest pharmacy. Call our law firm for a list of major pharmacies we have brought to justice to make it safer for consumers to get a reliable prescription safely filled.

If you or someone you know has been harmed by pharmacy error, please contact an Orlando personal injury lawyer for a free consultation.

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