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Recent Posts Tagged With 'medication error'
They stopped me from saving her life: Patient partnership and E.R. treatment
Lee's story:I live here in Arlington, Massachusetts. For several years I was dating a woman named Elizabeth. She was a Type 1 diabetic from when she was 12 years old. She hadn't taken good care with her insulin when she was young because she was an...
An incentive to do the wrong thing: A Phenergan injection lawsuit
Diana Levine is a guitarist, age 63, living in Vermont. She went to a clinic, complaining of pain from migraine headaches. A doctor there chose to inject her with Phenergan, an anti-nausea drug made by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Though the drug label ...
She thought he was just throwing a tantrum: An IV drug error
When six-year-old Chance Pendleton came out of surgery for a wandering eye, it was obvious that something was not right. "He was crying hysterically, vomiting and kept saying, 'I wish I was dead,'" his mother said.The boy had been through surgery be...
I’m sooooo beat up: An overworked nurse's medication error
I've been an LPN for a month. I made a med error this week...Gave .50 mg of Ativan instead of .25 mg. Devastating.On top of that, I was called into the ADON's office to see how they could help me from having so much overtime on my charting.I'm soooo ...
I got my mother back: Overuse of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes
Last fall, Theresa Lamascola of the Bronx, suffering from anxiety and confusion, was put on the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. When she had trouble walking, her daughter took her to another doctor, who found that she had unrecognized hypothyroidism, ...
