Pharmacy Liability

Pharmacists and the professionals who assist them must complete mandatory educational requirements. They are subject to strict oversight given their access to controlled substances and the potential for mistakes to cause harm to patients. For example, the law limits...

Many medication errors are relatively minor. If a nurse fails to administer a single dose of a systemic antibiotic, the patient may need to increase how long they take their medication. Other mistakes can be much more serious. A patient receiving too much of a...

It’s not unusual for even a relatively healthy American to be taking multiple prescription medications on a regular basis. If you’re taking a drug to treat or manage a medical or mental health condition, you depend on your pharmacy and the professionals there to...

Heading to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription is a routine task that’s supposed to be straightforward and safe. Sometimes, that simple trip turns into a pharmacy mix-up that can be an inconvenience or a life-threatening emergency. Consider the impact of an error...

For members of the general public in need of medical care, a pharmacy is a professional environment where they expect to receive expert support. Patients tend to assume that drugs dispensed by a pharmacist will be exactly what they should receive and that the...

The process of obtaining medication involves a lot of steps between the time your doctor writes a prescription (or, more likely, enters it into a system) and the time you get it from the pharmacy. There are numerous safeguards to help ensure that prescriptions are...

Medication errors can cause significant harm to patients because they aren’t getting what they actually need. There are various ways that these errors can occur, but it’s up to the medical professionals to ensure they don’t happen. More than 100,000 medication errors...

Louisiana state law requires specific medical training and licensing for someone to serve as a pharmacist. The years of schooling are comparable to what is necessary for medical doctors, and the wages for pharmacists are quite competitive. Hospital drug dispensaries...

Regular people depend upon the medical expertise of pharmacists and doctors to give them the correct treatment for their condition. When a pharmacist makes a mistake, it can have disastrous results, since medications can have such a wide variety of effects on the...

We put a lot of faith in our doctors to take care of us, and we trust our pharmacists. Even with years of experience, pharmacists are only human and are still capable of mistakes. These mistakes result in millions of Americans suffering the consequences of pharmacy...