St. Paul / Woman sues Walgreens over prescription error

Yikes, not good.

citylights wrote:

Yikes, not good.

Great insight! Thanks!

Wish there was more information on this. Why does Walgreens blame the woman? How long did she take them? What she on other meds?

For safety's sake, folks. Ask your provider what the meds look like so when you get them you can visually verify they are the correct meds.

I recently had a prescription and the instructions were so confusing I'm lucky I didn't OD. Luckily, I called the drug store where I filled it for clarification. I don't think the confusion was on the part of the pharmecist, but was the doctor's instructions.

Makes me wonder what this woman's doctor wrote on the presciption.

crime and passion wrote:

Ask your provider what the meds look like so when you get them you can visually verify they are the correct meds.

It's a good idea, but I wonder if that's something the doctor would even readily know. It seems that would be up a pharmecists alley....

Actually the providers can show them either from web resources or from books. Even the readers here should be able to check under http://www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html

here we go wrote:

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It's a good idea, but I wonder if that's something the doctor would even readily know. It seems that would be up a pharmecists alley....

hospital employee wrote:

Actually the providers can show them either from web resources or from books. Even the readers here should be able to check under http://www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html
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That's a good link for anyone to have bookmarked. Thanks!