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...
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How to catch prescription errors before they cause harm
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...
Common medication errors
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...
Lax supervision can lead to pharmacy technician mistakes
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...
Most common mistakes pharmacies make
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...
Top reasons pharmacists make mistakes
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...