Posts tagged error

• How Safe is Airline Travel?

  Jerry H. Trachtman | April 05, 2010 5:38 PM | 0 CommentsMelbourne, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Although it has been more than 100 years since the Wright brothers opened the door to heavier than air powered flight, some people still board the most technologically advanced airliners with a...

• Uninsured Benefit From Right To Know Act

  Eddie Farah | August 23, 2008 10:15 AM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Beginning January 1, 2009, the Health Care Consumer’s Right to Information Act will provide medical consumers with reliable and understandable information about health care charges so a patient...

• Walgreens Own Numbers Show Workloads Exceed Patient Safety Threshold

  Bob Carroll | October 09, 2005 9:44 PM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Tthe National Pharmacists Association released a report that may explain why so many prescription errors are occurring. The title of the report: Pharmacists routinely pushed beyond what they consider safe for patients. The risk of error rises along with the number of prescriptions filled per hour. This summer the National Pharmacists Association released a report that may explain why so many...

• Toprol - XL Confused With Topamax In Pharmacies And Doctor Offices

  Bob Carroll | September 29, 2005 12:18 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  AstraZeneca is reporting TOPROL-XL medication errors according to NewsInferno.com. TOPROL-XL, a beta blocker taken for the treatment of conditions such as hypertension and angina pectoris, is being confused in pharmacies and doctor offices with Topamax, indicated for the treatment of epilepsy and migraine prophylaxis. AstraZeneca is reporting TOPROL-XL medication errors according to...

• Semi Crash on I-4 Caused by Sleepy Trucker

  Mike Damaso | September 21, 2011 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Another Central Florida crash on Interstate 4 was reported this morning in the Orlando Sentinel, this time as a result of a tired trucker. The sentinel reports that a “sleepy driver” was...

• Repackaged Avastin Linked to Eye Infections and Blindness

  Orman Kimbrough, Jr. | September 06, 2011 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA has announced that repackaged injections of the cancer drug Avastin, also known as bevacizumab, have caused a cluster of serious eye infections in the Florida area. The Florida Department of...

• "Stop Me Before I Kill Another Infant With Another Heparin Overdose"

  Bob Carroll | September 21, 2006 6:33 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I wasn't very far into my legal career when I realized that some of the medical errors I was reviewing seemed to be repeat performances of earlier errors by the same provider or, at least, by other providers in the same medical community. Administering an adult dose of Heparin to an infant is the type of error that should only happen once in the history of a hospital. But, here we have the...

• How You Can Help Yourself Avoid Misfilled Prescriptions

  Laurie Briggs | June 08, 2011 3:07 PM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  You’ve likely read about it in a newspaper or heard about it happening on television, but sadly, drug mix-ups happen and they could cost you your life! An article published in the June...

• Pharmacy Errors Addressed In New Florida Law

  Eddie Farah | August 15, 2008 12:47 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Florida Governor Charlie Crist has just signed Senate Bill 1360 into law. The Pharmacy Technician Act is a significant piece of legislation that should keep us all safer from the medication errors...

• $25.8M Awarded in Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Walgreens

  Chrissie Cole | August 22, 2007 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A wrongful death lawsuit filed in 2003, by the family and children of a cancer patient that died when she was given the wrong prescription, was settled Friday when the jury awarded $25.8 million.In 2002 the woman was prescribed Warfarin, a blood thinner, to treat breast cancer. The prescription she was given was ten times stronger than what her doctor had prescribed.The mother of three passed...