According to the Center for Disease Control drug overdoses or incorrect medications cause an estimated 7,000 wrongful deaths each year throughout the United States and account for approximately 25% of all medical malpractice cases. This does not include product liability lawsuits involving product recalls. Because nurses bear primary responsibility in providing and disbursing medications to patients, it is the nurse along with the hospital in which they work that are the mort frequent medical professionals charged with medication errors medical malpractice.

You may be thinking to yourself, how can someone be given the wrong medication. Well, a doctor who wrote the prescription can write the wrong medication or have illegible handwriting. A doctor can be unaware or negligent of past medical history which can include past allergies and current prescriptions that can have a negative interaction to prescribed drugs. A pharmacist can make an error in labeling or dispensing. A patient can switch rooms and be given the incorrect drug or be given the correct drub multiple times leading to an overdose. A doctor or nurse can forget to mention potential side effects.

The list goes on and on but the important thing to know is that physicians, nurses and other health care professional do make mistakes, and more often than you might think. You may even receive a prescription to a product that is eventually deemed a dangerous drug and is recalled for withdrawn from the market. These drugs include Yaz, Avandia, Celebrex, Benzene, Bextra, Duract, Ephedrine, Fen-Phen, Rezulin, Tequin, Trasylol, Advair, Duract, Darvocet, Lamisil, and Trovan amongst others.

When a medical professional's negligence causes an injury, it is our job to help you achieve a just recovery. A medical malpractice lawyer at Philadelphia's Kane and Silverman can help you to obtain and to understand and interpret the medical files and information related to your medical malpractice case. We would be pleased to meet with you, wherever and whenever, you desire, to discuss your case in detail.

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