A new report by the National Academy of Sciences shows that military doctors may be overprescribing pain pills. This lax prescribing leads to the issue of overmedication that seems to be plaguing service people with resulting addictions. Active personnel who
While a 45-year-old woman’s cardiac bypass surgery appeared to be a success, hospital officials did not anticipate a post-op error that was to be made just a few hours after the surgery took place. An evening nurse administered anesthesia called
Kentucky and Ohio patients may be interested in knowing that most medication errors occur during the administration phase. And a recent study has shown that more than one-third of such errors involved the giving of medication intravenously. Patient safety organizations
Prescription mistakes are occurring at an alarming rate in Ohio and elsewhere in the nation. Unfortunately, such medication errors can often be deadly. For example, a 10-year-old boy had been prescribed Intuniv for ADD. What the pharmacy had provided instead
An Ohio pharmacist is awaiting an appeal for having her license permanently suspended. It appears that there were a number of irregularities concerning her practice, which the court labeled “technical violations.” Nevertheless, the violations were deemed serious enough to raise
Dr. Otis Webb Brawley has written a book called, “How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America.” Despite what politicians may claim, Dr. Brawley blames much of physician malpractice and medical malpractice going on in
A professor at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy is concerned about the lack of post-discharge medication management for patients released from the hospital. Patients are not often cognitive of side effects or other drug-related reactions that should alert
Medication errors in Ohio are potentially devastating. An Ohio pharmacist once served six months in jail for neglecting to detect a mistake made by a technician in mixing chemotherapy. A 2-year-old girl, receiving what was to be her last chemotherapy
In Montgomery County, Ohio approximately 40 people have reportedly died in suspected overmedication-related deaths in 2011, a death rate that doubles that of other urban Ohio counties. State authorities are cracking down. And if authorities are correct, a Dayton doctor
A fatal combination of medications can be the result of negligent actions by a doctor or other medical professional in Ohio and across the country. Recent federal and state indictments prove their actions could also be criminal. Florida recently took
