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Medication Errors In Pharmacy Practice
not often, an error injures a patient. In such an instance, we can be held liable in a civil suit for money damages as compensation for the injury. We carry malpractice insurance because we know that no matter how good we are, we will never eliminate the possibility of a negligent act that may result in human error and injury to a patient. What if, however, our medication error resulted in a criminal charge? In May, an Ohio pharmacist pleaded "No contest" (essentially equivalent to a guilty plea without admission of guilt) to a charge of involuntary manslaughter. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. We commonly think that a person charged with a crime is a "bad person." The pharmacist in the Ohio case was not a bad person, but a mistake occurred under his supervision that resulted in the death of a two-year-old girl. There seems little question that negligence was involved. According to newspaper accounts and Board of Pharmacy minutes, a hospital pharmacy technician mistakenly mixed chemotherapy solution with 23.4 percent instead of 0.9 percent sodium chloride. The parents' civil suit charging n
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