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Walgreens Does The Impossible And Kills A Drug Customer
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There are some things that can never happen. One is the misfilling of a prescription.
If you were to read the procedure manual or interview the head of any major U.S. pharmacy company you would learn that there are four or five independent steps which are required before a container of prescription drugs is handed to the patient/consumer. You would also learn that multiple employees, including a licensed pharmacist, are independently involved in the process. Therefore, you would realize it would simply be impossible for a misfilled prescription to wend its way through such a fail-safe sequence. It would be the equivalent of an accidental launch of a nuclear-armed long-range missile, which also cannot happen.
Well, Walgreens launched a missile and killed a customer.
Walgreens loses $25.8M in Fla. lawsuit
BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - A jury awarded $25.8 million Friday to the family of a cancer patient who was given a wrong prescription, had a stroke and died several years later, lawyers said.Beth Hippely was prescribed Warfarin, a blood thinner, in 2002 to treat breast cancer. The prescription filled at a Walgreens (NYSE:WAG) pharmacy was 10 times what her doctor prescribed, court documents said.
The Polk County Circuit Court jury found the prescription error caused a cerebral hemorrhage resulting in permanent bodily injury, disability and physical pain. The mother of three died in January at the age of 46.
A 19-year-old pharmacy technician, with little training, misfiled the prescription, according to court documents.
Where was the 19-year-old's supervising licensed pharmacist? On a lunch break?
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