 Re: Drug Errors
My worst mistake was dispensing furosemidum instead of furaginum. It was a handwritten prescription... I managed to reach the patient before he had taken it.
Doctors don't care at all... One day a patient came to complain - for about two months he had been taking doxazosin 1mg instead of 4 mg because his doctor hadn't put a dose on the prescription. He thought it was my mistake. But after that he kept visiting the doctor - and the doctor made the same mistake two more times. Each time it was me to send back the patient to correct the dose.
Yesterday I had a prescription for "Cizertin" althuogh there is no such drug. It should be "Tisercin", but the doctor couldn't remember it so she wrote "whatever".
In Poland each prescriptionis checked after dispensing by another pharmacist which is good and helps to reveal mistakes quickly. We don't correct minor mistakes. We always try to contact when the patient is a child.
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