Feeling Safer Yet?
Feb 12th, 2008 at 1:26 pm by Susie
And if doctors had to type prescriptions - or print them legibly - this would have been a lot less likely to happen:
When Tabitha Jones picked up her stepson’s medicine at a Walgreens store near Nashville in 2004, she had no way to know the pharmacy was so busy that its manager had asked for more staffing months earlier to “decrease the pharmacist’s stress.”
She also had no idea the drug Walgreens gave her that day was a steroid never intended for children and not the blood pressure drug prescribed to treat Trey Jones’ hand tremors and hyperactivity. Walgreens refilled the prescription four times, eventually at double the adult dosage, before the error was caught. The 5-year-old not only went into premature puberty but also erupted in rages.
Trey’s parents sued Walgreens, fearing the steroid could stunt the boy’s growth or cause liver damage. “We don’t know what could happen later on down the road,” his father, Robert Jones Jr., said in a 2006 pretrial deposition.
I just hope that congress doesn’t investigate
this little kid about his steroid use.
My doctor prints her Rxs out of a computer. Legibility is never an issue, except maybe for her signature.