Chain pharmacies are a common sight in almost every neighborhood, offering convenience and accessibility to medications and health services. While they serve a vital role in our healthcare system, there are growing concerns about the deadly errors that can arise from their hectic and often chaotic environments. Are pharmacists respected? For decades, pharmacists were the […]
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Most Common Medical Errors Because pharmacists can get slammed with orders, prescription errors in pharmacy can occur. According to the University of Connecticut’s School of Pharmacy, out of all the prescriptions filled in the US 1-5 percent of them involve some kind of error. According to the same report published by the University of Connecticut, prescription […]
Getting the wrong medication from the pharmacy and suffering serious harm sounds like a nightmare, but it’s shockingly common: according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), medication errors cause at least one death every day and injure about 1.3 million people annually in the United States. So what happens when a medication error […]