Medical Malpractice Lawyer Serving Vermont

Ordering the wrong medication or failure to order medication that should be ordered can form the basis for a medical malpractice claim. Such medication errors can take the form of a wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong patient, wrong time, wrong rate, wrong preparation, or wrong route of administration. When this occurs and it results in a significant injury or worsening of some medical condition, an experienced medical malpractice attorney should be consulted as soon as possible.

The above listed types of medication errors are included in the category of “Never Events” or “Serious Reportable Events (SRE)” These types of medication errors are categorized as such because they should simply never happen. Such a designation means that the consequences are easily avoided by simply following established protocols designed to prevent just such incidents. Medication errors also occur when the ordering doctor or medical provider fails to take into account all of the patient’s other medications to determine if there are any contraindications to the medication they want to prescribe and can also occur when the doctor or provider fails to warn the patient of the potential side effects and provide their patients with the information necessary for those patients to decide if they wish to take it or not.

Sometimes the medication error is caused by the pharmacy filling the prescription and not the prescribing health care provider. Medication errors also occur when the prescribing providers fail to ascertain, or ignore the fact, that the patient is allergic to the particular medication prescribed.

David has successfully handled medical malpractice cases involving medication errors.