a stretch for anyone to check up in a filled prescription."Pharmacy Mistakes Are Not Uncommon
Pharmacy mistakes do happen. In 2008, Terry Paul Smith, a 46-year-old roofing contractor, was given the wrong dosage instructions
for a painkiller by a Jacksonville, Fla., pharmacist.He was prescribed to take four 10-milligram tablets of methadone, twice daily. But an an inexperienced pharmacist wrote the label to use it "as needed."He died of an accidental overdose 36 hours later. The
pharmacy eventually settled the family's lawsuit.In 2007, an Atlanta woman was given the powerful antidepressant Trazadone instead of an antibiotic. A bracelets wholesale A bus driver, she was so overcome by dizziness, she nearly ran off the road and had to call for
a substitute driver and was hospitalized.One person was given warfarin, a risky blood thinner, instead of a diabetes medication. Another was swarovski crystal earrings wholesale was treated for Alzheimer's instead of getting the prescribed sleeping pills.A report in the Atlanta Constitution indicated that about 3
percent of all prescriptions have potentially harmful errors -- the wrong medicine, the wrong dosage or the wrong directions.In the incident incident last week in Colorado, Safeway admitted the prescription mistake to ABC and said they would launch a full investigation."When
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