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PHARMACY LAW BLOG

Wrong Medication

• Safe Med Program Helps Reduce Drug Error Cases in Older Patients
• Wrong Medication Error Causes Injury after Eye Surgery
• Safeway Pharmacy Gives Wrong Medicine to Expectant Mother

Wrong Dosage

• Cape Cod Mom Saves Baby from Prescription Overdose
• Prescription Phone Orders: A Common Cause of Dosage Errors
• Premature Baby Injured by Wrong Dosage of Morphine

Other Errors

• Hospital’s Follow-Up Program May Reduce Its Number of Harmful Drug Errors
• FDA Implements Bar Codes to Reduce Prescription Drug Errors
• What can you do if a pharmacy breached their duty of care to you?

Kids Rx Errors

• Medical Student Training Helps Reduce Texas Medication Errors for Children
• Joint Commission Encourages Kids to Speak Up about Medication Errors
• Medication Errors in Children: a Problem Bigger than Texas

Pharmacy Malpractice

• FDA Warns Pharmacists to AVOID Drug Interaction Errors
• Hospitals see 60 percent drop in errors when doctors use electronic prescriptions
• Seattle pharmacies investigated for reselling secondhand drugs

Walgreens Claims

• Walgreens Sued Over Medication Error in Michigan

State pharmacy boards

• Rate of Massachusetts prescription mistakes unchanged
• Are you taking contaminated medicine?

Drug Error Prevention

• How a hospital bar code could save your life
• Risperdal $327 million penalty upheld in SC court
• FDA cracking down on safety violations at prescription manufacturing plants

State Pharmacy Laws

• Merck to pay $950 million in criminal and civil fines for Vioxx marketing
• Proposed Pharmacy merger could expose consumers to more dangerous pharmacy practices

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Active Cases

• Pharmacists Warn of Dangerous Drug Interactions2/19/2012
• Three Patients Overdose Due to Medication Errors in Pennsylvania Hospital2/13/2012
• Morphine Use a Common Factor in Hospital Medication Errors, Report Says2/5/2012
• Intravenous Painkillers Often Given in Wrong Doses to Children2/5/2012
• Checking Pictures of Medications Saves Patients from Pharmacy Errors2/4/2012
• Nurses Discover Fewer Hospital Drug Errors with Barcode System1/31/2012

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Learning Center

Wrong Medication

• Medicare to Penalize Hospitals for Preventable Medication Errors
• FDA Warns of Wrong Medication Errors When Taking Durezol and Durasal
• How Nurses Can Defend Patients from Hospital Medication Mistakes

Wrong Dosage

• 5 Things Doctors Can Do to Avoid Dosage Errors in Texas
• How Do Houston Dosage Errors Happen?

Other Errors

• 5 Things All Patients MUST Do To Prevent Harmful Medication Mistakes
• 10 Tips to Avoid Medication Mistakes in the Elderly
• Types of Injuries Caused by Houston Pharmacy Errors

Kids Rx Errors

• How safe is your child from medication
  mix-ups during school hours?
• Infants are More Likely to Suffer Cardiac Medication Errors in Texas
• How to Prevent Medication Errors in Children’s Hospitals

Pharmacy Malpractice

• How Pharmacists Contribute to Drug Interaction Injuries
• Medical error truths your doctor
  may be keeping from you
• Dirty pharmacy secrets – The four pharmacy chains in legal battles over prescription errors.

Walgreens Claims

• Walgreens Pays $31.3M after Pharmacist Mistake Causes Wrongful Death

CVS Claims

• CVS Pharmacy’s Long History of Medication Errors

State pharmacy boards

• HIV AIDS Drugs Tested on Foster Kids
  for Over 20 Years
  
  Part Two: Are drug makers experimenting with your kids?
• Texas Attorney General claims drug companies misled the public on
  safety of Risperdal
• Foster Kids Used as Guinea Pigs by Big Pharma with States’ Permission

Drug Error Prevention

• Oregon Pharmacists refuse to participate in pharmacy error reporting.
• Only one out of seven errors are reported by hospital employees, study finds.
• How Safe is Your Prescription Medication?

General

• Who Is in Charge of Keeping Track of Medication Mistakes in the U.S.?
• Study finds new Metal-on-Metal
  hip implants are worse than older models.
• ¿Que es error farmaceutico y como puedo poner una demanda por un error de farmacia?

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Case Results

Wrong Medication

Successful representation for national pharmacy mistake lawsuit

Wrong Medication Lawsuit Representation

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Wrong Dosage

Successful pharmacy dosage mistake lawsuit

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Other Errors

Pharmacy Mislabeling Mistake

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Testimonials

• When I went to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription the pharmacy put two different medications in the bottle, including one I was not supposed to take...
• A pharmacy gave me the wrong instructions on some medication for my son and he got sick. I needed legal help and even though they were in a different state than where I live they were able to take my case...

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Videos

• Kennedy Hodges Pharmacy Error Overview

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FAQs

Wrong Medication

• What are common medications that are confused at the pharmacy or in the hospital?
  
• A nurse at a hospital made a mistake when administering my medication. Can I sue the hospital for the medication mistake?
• Are pharmacies taking responsibility for Texas prescription mistakes?
• Are the elderly more at risk of a Texas prescription error?
• My pharmacy admitted they gave me the wrong medication and asked me to bring the medication back to exchange it. Should I do it?
  

Wrong Dosage

• Are teaspoons a good way to measure dosage for a Texas prescription?
• Is it illegal for a doctor to use abbreviations on a Texas prescription label?
  
• How Common are Wrong Dosage Errors in Texas Hospitals?

Other Errors

• Do I have a Texas drug error case against my pharmacist?
  
• Do computers reduce the number of prescription drug mistakes?
  
• How often do pharmacy errors occur when doctors send handwritten prescriptions to the pharmacy?
  
• I am pregnant and the pharmacy gave me the wrong medication and I am afraid of what may happen to me and my unborn baby after taking the wrong prescription. What are my rights?
  
• How do transcription mistakes cause Texas prescription drug errors?

Kids Rx Errors

• My child was on Risperdal for some time and now he is having severe side effects from the medication. Do I have any rights against the company?
  
• How do I prove that my child was harmed by pharmacist malpractice?
• What should I do if my child started vomiting due to a prescription error?
• After my child was the victim of a pharmacy misfill incident an adjuster called me asking for me to give a recorded statement. Should I cooperate?

Pharmacy Malpractice

• One of my prescriptions caused a drug reaction with an herbal supplement. Is my pharmacist to blame?
  
• Are pill-counting tools to blame for pharmacy errors?
  
• Is the pharmacist directly responsible for my medication mistake?
  
• Do I have a Risperdal lawsuit?
  
• Can a prescription drug mistake be made at the drop-off window?

Walgreens Claims

• Can a prescription drug error at Walgreens pharmacy be caused by stressful work environments for the pharmacists and technicians?
• My mother was given wrong medication by Walgreens and suffered horrible symptoms. How do I prove that her symptoms are linked to the pharmacy drug error?
• As a pharmacy attorney, what experience does David Hodges have representing clients against CVS, Walgreens and other national pharmacies?
  

State pharmacy boards

• I think I have been harmed by a contaminated drug. What are my rights?
• Should I report a pharmacy dispensing error to my state board of pharmacy?

Drug Error Prevention

• How can I protect my child from medication errors during school hours?
  
• How common are hospital medication mistakes?
  
• What are the best ways to prevent a prescription error injury before and after I go to the pharmacy?

State Pharmacy Laws

• What are the pharmacy error laws in Oregon?
  
• Virginia
• Washington pharmacy error
  
• West Virginia pharmacy error
  
• Wisconsin personal injury
  

General

• I was recently given the wrong medication in a hospital. Can I hold the hospital accountable for medication mistakes?

• Do I really need a pharmacy error lawyer?
• Can a medication error lawyer help me if I don't have the bottle with the medicine?
• Will a pharmacist lawsuit help get the attention of big pharmacies to make them change their unsafe practices?

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