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When I worked doing pharmacist regulation, giving just one wrong pill could result in a large fine. It is worse if the patient ingests the drug or if the patient ingests the drug and something adverse happens due to a drug reaction or allergy. It is a pretty big deal. Thankfully the OP’s husband recognized the pill, but sometimes a pill can look different (due to different brands of the same generic) and people might not immediately know something is off if they get a different looking pill.
Retail pharmacy should be automated. There is no reason not to. It will prevent many errors
how do you see that working? in the states there is plenty of automation and mistakes still happen. mistakes will always happen. there's always going to be a human somewhere in the process.
My husband is diabetic and has rhematiod arthritis and is on many pills for both conditions.. Yesterday he got all this tablets as he thought then he noticed one he used to get for gout four years ago but had a label on the back for an RA medicine he takes..with his name, date and how to take the tablets.. It had been checked also four times by the chemist and passed. this is totally not acceptable and hes gone just now to talk to them at the pharmacy....
Unfortunately,it happens.
I have been known to miss something on busy, distracting, days and dispensed the wrong med..Not often, thank God, but once is too often
Today's problem is that we have to stop and give a vaccine, or council a patient, or show someone where the Tampax is located, or talk to a doc that prescribed the wrong med, or , or , or
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My husband is diabetic and has rhematiod arthritis and is on many pills for both conditions.. Yesterday he got all this tablets as he thought then he noticed one he used to get for gout four years ago but had a label on the back for an RA medicine he takes..with his name, date and how to take the tablets.. It had been checked also four times by the chemist and passed. this is totally not acceptable and hes gone just now to talk to them at the pharmacy....
Humans make mistakes. Unfortunate it happened, but you caught it.
My apologies for being snarky. I was replying before my coffee and shouldn't have responded as I did. I am glad the mistake was caught and everyone is OK.
Im the same some days no worries ... I should have explained that my hubby has so much trouble getting the proper medicines at the right times from the chemist. theres always a mistake or they dont have one he needs to have.. same old carry on and I think he was so fed up being messed about by them on previous visits , and this tipped him..
Back when my dad was alive he was given the wrong prescription and the pharmacy actually realized it and sent someone to his house to retrieve it. I don't remember now what it was but it was something that could have had very bad results if he had taken it.
Retail pharmacy should be automated. There is no reason not to. It will prevent many errors
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how do you see that working? in the states there is plenty of automation and mistakes still happen. mistakes will always happen. there's always going to be a human somewhere in the process.
Not only that but part of my job involves working with a lot of instrumentation and that instrumentation regularly breaks...
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