When you go to the pharmacy to pick up your prescription, you trust your pharmacist and the pharmacy technicians are doing their job to ensure you receive the correct medication. Unfortunately, pharmacy mistakes and malpractice are more common than many people realize. When a pharmacy makes a medication mistake, the consequences can be deadly...

When you go to the pharmacy to pick up your prescription, you expect the drugs you are given to be the right drugs with the correct dosage instructions. What you don’t expect is having to review the pills inside the bottle before you take them as prescribed. Even if you did review...

How do medication errors occur in hospitals, doctor’s offices, and pharmacies?

Prescription medications are administered to help us feel better and even to save our lives, but medication errors can inflict serious injuries or even death.  According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), medication errors result in thousands of deaths annually,...