When you pick up your prescription from the pharmacy, you assume it has been filled properly and basic standards of care have been followed. You assume the pharmacist has filled your prescription with the correct drug and the correct dose.
Sadly, this is not always the case. With millions of prescriptions being written each year, thousands are misfilled. Most of those pharmacy prescription errors will not be serious, but for some, the damage will be tremendous, resulting in permanent injury or death.
Types of pharmacy errors include: wrong medication, wrong strength, wrong label information and insufficient label information. The negative consequences include: taking a wrong medication to which you are allergic, taking a wrong medication, which causes you harm or fails to address the condition you need medication for, a damaging or fatal overdose of the medication your doctor ordered, a damaging or fatal under dosage of the medication your doctor ordered and a negative drug interaction between the wrong medication and another one you also take.
