Medication and Pharmaceutical Overdose Attorney

Hospitals should be the safest possible places for patients, just as prescriptions from doctors should always be the correct type and dosage. Unfortunately, patients in Florida and throughout the U.S. can’t always take this for granted. According to a 2016 study, more than 3.5 million doctor’s appointments and one million emergency room visits happen each year because of adverse drug events.

Medication overdose errors can happen at several points throughout the patient journey, including:

• Drug manufacturer using the wrong recipe or mislabeling a product
• A doctor writing a prescription for the wrong drug or dosage
• Doctor failing to prevent an adverse drug interaction with something the patient is already taking
• A nurse or pharmacy misreading the prescription
• Pharmacy mislabeling or incorrectly filing a prescription
• Nurse administering too much of a drug
• Drug administration machine malfunction
• An anesthesiologist giving too much anesthesia during a surgery

Preventable medication mistakes, including overdose, impact in excess of seven million patients in the U.S. annually. The drug that caused an overdose could have come from a doctor, hospital, nurse, anesthesiologist, or pharmacist. It is possible to bring lawsuits against one, two, or all of these parties in Florida in pursuit of damages. The success of your medical malpractice claim will depend upon your ability to prove negligence.  You need a lawyer to ensure it is done correctly.