A pharmacist has the duty to protect their patients by pharmacy error.

Every year close to a million people are on the basis of pharmacy errors badly hurt and really close to a million people die from prescription drug errors.

Some examples of pharmacy error:

Fill the wrong PrescriptionsFilling the wrong DosageProviding the wrong instructions for the recording of the MedicationFailing to check possible interactions

Low level technician

One of the biggest problems in the industry is that there no national minimum standards for the training of pharmacy technicians. The technicians are often not more qualified to work in a pharmacy as a teenager take a first job in a fast-food restaurant. They should order under the direct supervision of licensed pharmacists to work, but in many cases they fill recipes wrong with tragic consequences.

It helps that some of the chain can pharmacies such as Walgreens or CVS do not, attempt to monitor profit recipes that are filled at the same time by several technicians with pharmacists. This pharmacy workers are heavily overworked and hardly have any time to even brief pauses.

In Florida, for example, a teenager, pharmacy assistant recipe for blood thinner pills filled a woman and instead of an input in a milligrams on the label in ten milligrams for dosage, request entered it. The woman, suffered a massive crippling stroke after taking the pills at the recommended dosage as printed on the label and was forced to stop in the early-stage breast cancer stage.

She died tragically even before her personal injury case in court. Later, the Court upheld a judgment against Walgreens in the amount of $ 25.8 million. This was one of the biggest judgments in history in a case with prescription errors. Ago to her job as a technician in the Pharmacy was the pharmacy technicians work experience only in one of movie theater popcorn make worked had.

Revised pharmacist

A study of the University of North Carolina found that increased the average retail pharmacists work load by 57 per cent between 1991 and 2000. This means, that typical pharmacist a prescription fill one was 1991 compared on average every five minutes with every eight minutes. This was partly due to the increase in the over 65 population with a need for prescription drugs.

If pharmacists were asked, she cited these reasons the most common causes of pharmacy errors:

Too many phone calls (62%) overload / day (59%) unusually too booked many customers (53%) Lack of concentration (41%) no one available (41%) Deficiency (32%) similar drug personnel name (29%) no time advise (29%) illegible recipe (26%) check misinterpreted recipe (24%)

No reporting requirements

Currently, there are on any actual published numbers how many pharmacy errors in this country is there because pharmacies not under federal law to report errors prescription are required, even if these errors of serious injury or death. Refuse the drug chains to protect this data carefully and usually also tell whether the numbers go to the top or bottom in the course of time.

What can you do

Prescription drug are errors implementation of procedures and precautions and the application of the reasonable care generally with the avoidable. If they are not prevented and serious or catastrophic damage results should the patient be considered those responsible to justice.

Montlick and employees we believe pharmacies, your pharmacist in the use of the legal system, negligence and their technicians liable for the damage which they cause. Our lawyers Georgia pharmacy negligence will work hard, build your case, so that you can pursue justice and adequate compensation for your loss.

If you are injured due to an error of prescription drug you may a misconduct claim. Consult a lawyer as soon as possible. In Georgia, where there are limitation period for submission of misconduct cases and this time all States, non-observance leads to a loss of the right to a claim.

If you love or someone were victims of pharmacy contact negligence the compassionate Georgia pharmacy misconduct to experience lawyers Montlick and Associates, lawyers for a free consultation you can help more about your rights and how we. We represent clients in all Georgia, including but not limited to Albany, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Dalton, Gainesville, Macon, Marietta, Rome, Roswell, Savannah, Smyrna, Valdosta helping Warner Robins and all the smaller towns and rural areas in the State. Call us today for your free consultation at 1-800-LAW-NEED (1-800-529-6333), or visit us on the Internet at www.montlick.com. No matter where you are in Georgia we are only a phone call away and we come to you.

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