National News Desk

Wal-Mart Pays $1.27 Million After Pharmacy Error Leads to Man's Death

Posted by Staff Writer
Friday, March 29, 2002 12:00 AM EST
Category: Major Medical
Tags: Medical Malpractice and Negligent Care, Pharmacists

Wal-Mart must pay $1.27 million to the family of an Arkansas man who died after a pharmacist gave him the wrong medication. John Tucker died in September 1997 after taking Ziac, a high blood-pressure drug, instead of Zaroxolyn, a diuretic. A labeling mistake on the prescription bottle caused the fatal error. Fluid accumulated in Tucker's body causing severe weight gain. After several months of taking the wrong medication, he eventually died of congestive heart failure.


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