Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorneys
Medication errors can be crippling or fatal! Doctors, pharmacists/pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies may be liable for your pain and suffering. A pharmacist or pharmacy’s failure to follow the doctor’s instructions or failure to dispense the prescribed medications may cause severe damage or death to the unknowing patient. The neglect of the doctor to take in to account other drugs or supplements that the patient is taking when prescribing new medications can be catastrophic. Drug companies have knowingly placed drugs on the market without disclosing to the FDA complications and fatalities from their clinical trials.
Has a medication error negatively affected your life? The Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorneys at the Law Firm of Lowenthal & Abrams can assist you with your medication error case.
At Lowenthal & Abrams we represent clients with medical malpractice claims including those related to medication errors. Prescription malpractice errors include:
- Wrong Dosage
- Wrong Medication
- Illegible Prescriptions
- Defective Drugs
- Incorrect Medicine Abbreviations
- Inadequate Pain Administration
Doctors make mistakes! The most common physician medication errors occur when writing the prescriptions. The doctor may write down the wrong abbreviation or dosage for a medication. The doctor may confuse two patient’s prescriptions. Or, the doctor may just get it wrong. Ask yourself, have you ever been able to read your doctor’s handwriting on your prescription slip? If your doctor was at fault for your injury from a prescribed medication, contact our lawyers today!
Pharmacists are the first line of defense when a medication is prescribed. They have the knowledge to determine whether medications contradict with each other, avoiding sever injuries and reactions. Pharmacists are obligated to call the prescribing physician if the prescription is illegible. Unfortunately, pharmacists make mistakes by using the wrong medication or by not following the physician’s prescription. If a Philadelphia pharmacist has neglected to fulfill the standard of care they are obligated to and you have suffered because of it, contact our Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorneys now!
During the development of prescription drugs, adequate testing may be neglected and the results from the testing may be altered. When this happens, the patient suffers lifelong consequences from medication side effects or even worse, death. Today, drug manufacturing companies are responsible when they place a new drug on the market without proper testing and research that concludes whether the drug is safe for consumers. A label must be placed on the product with the appropriate warning about side effects, interactions and complications. Have you been taking a medication which was recently recalled by the FDA and have suffered due to the reasons the FDA recalled the drug? If so, you may be able to seek compensation for those injuries from the drug manufacturer.
If you are concerned about a prescription error that has happened to you or your loved one, contact one of our Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorneys today.