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Lindsay Lindberg had needed special help from the start. The infant was born in November with a heart defect that left her fatigued and unable to nurse. Her mother, Courtney Lindberg, had been filling a host of prescriptions at a Walgreens pharmacy in north Spokane. Medication was supposed to be a temporary solution until surgeons could patch the holes in Lindsay’s walnut-size heart that had left her weak since birth. Instead, because of a labeling mix-up, it could have been fatal. Now the mother is urging other parents to double-check the medicines they bring home from pharmacies for their children. Walgreens has apologized for the incident and says it’s spent a billion dollars to prevent similar problems/John Stucke, SR. More here.
Question: How closely do you check to double check that you’ve been provided the right drugs by your pharmacy?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Cabbage Boy on May 06 at 9:34 a.m.
Nothing the government or corporations do will replace the diligence of a good parent.
My wife knew all the chemo drugs for my son and twice stopped a nurse from giving the wrong stuff.
Once while I was watching him, they came to give him his morphine and gave him the adult version. They caught it quickly and gave him an antidote, but he was sure a popular visit for the nurses that evening.
Bent on May 06 at 11:10 a.m.
That’s scarry. I would have no idea how to check my medications. How am I supposed to know if I got a wrong pill?
Cabbage Boy on May 06 at 11:16 a.m.
Get your own lab rat.
Bent on May 06 at 11:23 a.m.
Good advice, CB.