we’re all aware of the fact you may have a medical negligence claim if you have suffered injury or allergy relating to a medical procedure, but were you aware that there are also cases where pharmaceutical errors have lead to a clinical negligence claim?
as with a medical error, an error when prescribing medication can lead to health defects such as illness, injury and in severe cases, death.
pharmaceutical errors are when there is mistake in the medication suggested to you by a pharmacist. The error may be the wrong type of medication being given or could be an error in the prescribed dose, and both can have a detrimental gusto and effect on your health. Errors also occur where the pharmacist gives a different medicine or dosage to what has earlier been prescribed by the patients gp or other consultant.
however, the most common situation where pharmaceutical errors occur is when medicines are prescribed without a doctor’s prescription, such as formal and cold and flu remedies, allergy ointments or drops. One such case was when a chester women was experiencing some dryness and itching in the eyes. She asked the advice of the pharmacist who prescribed some eye drops, however the packaging of the eye drops was identical to the packaging of some ear drops and they (against the advice of manufacturers) were kept side by side. , and so the pharmacist gave the wrong one. Needless to say when the woman in question used the drops her eyes became itchy and swollen with a stinging sensation.
when a medicine is first given to you, you might not be aware that it is wrong, and so trusting the professional’s judgement, may take the wrong medicine or wrong dose of a medicine. Fortunately, someone else’s mistake does not always result in you illness, but if you have suffered injury relating to a pharmaceutical error then you may be able to claim for medical negligence.
very well written and intriguing post, thanks author. i would like to say something on Medical negligence claim, When you visit a doctor, you are seeking some form of medical care, and you trust the doctor to provide it adequately. However, sometimes doctors do not provide you the service you paid for or make mistakes such as wrong diagnosis, not referring you to a specialist in time, mistakes during surgery, etc. Such mistakes are referred to as medical negligence.
If you feel you are a victim of medical negligence, it is your legal right to seek restitution in the form of compensation. The key part of a successful medical negligence claim is proving the doctor did not follow correct medical procedures.