Augusta GA Pharmacy and Prescription Error Lawyer
Drug Error Attorney Augusta Georgia
If you or a loved one have been injured due to an error made in your medical prescription near Augusta Georgia, then call our Augusta Georgia pharmacy and prescription error lawyers today.
Pharmacy and Prescription Errors
The Food and Drug Administration estimates that, over 1 million people are injured each year by mistakes made at pharmacies across the nation.
Pharmacy and prescription errors can include a patient being given the incorrect medicine or wrong dosage. Such errors happen all over - the largest national pharmacy chains, as well as at local independent pharmacies.
Types of prescription medication errors include:
- Giving the wrong medication
- Dispensing a combination of medications known to cause a overdose
- Failing to contact the prescribing physician regarding the known risks posed by a combination of medications
- Failing to detect drug allergies
- Failing to develop and maintain appropriate quality assurance systems in a retail pharmacy setting such as Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS, or Walmart.
The reasons for pharmacy and prescription errors include:
• inadequate training of employees
• overworked pharmacists
• faulty quality assurance programs.
There are different types of pharmacy and prescription errors that can occur. First, sometimes your prescription can be completely switched with another whose medicine looks like yours. Certain drugs come to the pharmacy in a high dose, and pharmacists have to dilute such medications prior to dispensing them to the consumer. Other errors include providing a higher or lower dose, not warning about adverse reactions with your existing medicines, inaccurate labeling, inaccurate instructions, etc.
Pharmaceutical and prescription errors are generally associated with pharmacists and pharmacy staff, but other professionals such as doctors, physician assistants, nurses, EMTs and nursing home staff, can be held liable.
If you are a victim of pharmacy and prescription error, you may be eligible to pursue a significant financial award to cover pain and suffering, medical expenses and more.
We provide quality legal representation to victims throughout Georgia in a range of personal injury matters. With decades of experience successfully representing injured victims, our attorneys have the skills and background to help you recover the compensation you deserve.
We offer a high level of personal attention, responding to all phone calls within 24 hours, and regularly meeting with clients at their homes or in the hospital.
Our attorneys are meticulously detail-oriented and will follow through in every aspect of your case. Our attorneys are team players who are motivated and focused on understanding and meeting the needs of our clients and their families.
Our prescription medication error lawyers are based in Augusta Georgia . Our lawyers fight to get pharmacy negligence victims the compensation they are entitled to.
