You should always check to make sure the medicines you get are the medicines you’re prescribed. Dorothy Enriquez learned this lesson the hard way when she began taking the leukemia drugs that CVS gave her instead of her actual prescription. Not only did the pharmacy give her the wrong drug, but at several times the recommended dose for someone who actually has leukemia.
She took the drugs because she thought she’d been given a generic for her normal prescription, but when she started feeling ill, she called CVS and asked them about the strange new drug. They told her it wasn’t a generic for her usual prescription, but they did offer to refill it for her. Finally, Dorothy looked up the drug on the internet. That’s when she found out it was a powerful chemotherapy drug.
Ms. Enriquez ended up in the hospital, and CVS ended up in Fox 5, New York’s “Hall of Shame.” Fox 5 went to the CVS with their camera crew and tried to interview the pharmacist who made the mistake. He wasn’t willing to talk, but they did notice that he was supervising more assistants than is allowed by law. When they asked him about the violation he smiled and answered, “You’re good!”
Shame, Shame, Shame: Medication Mistake [Fox 5]
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@BlackFlag55: So what is your solution? You could provide the same argument you presented against cars, but you provide no alternative or solution. I also find what you wrote vague. What is considered a “innury”? Is someone having a allergic reaction to a previously unknown allergy a “innury”? If we compare the 275,000 deaths yearly that you cite, to the number who are helped and SAVED by “medicine”, what is the ratio like? There are people who can not be saved. There are people who have underlying conditions which are undetectable, and only reveal and assert themselves when someone is undergoing a procedure.
I have heard the average pharmacist kills 3 people throughout the course of their career. So why would this story be that surprising to any of you.
@Eyebrows McGee: “Everybody (especially if you have kids) should have a copy of the big giant pill/drug book.”
Wow, isn’t there someone I can pay to do this for me?
Not surprising. They have more students than pharmacists working in their pharmacies…