Medication
Three Ways Narcotic Prescriptions May Be Medical Malpractice
June 10th, 2020
We have written before in this space about whether doctors can be held liable for a patient’s opioid (narcotic) addiction. The answer is that they can, but like any action taken by a medical professional, the circumstances must meet certain criteri…
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Categories: Medical Malpractice
Tags: Medication
Do Electronic Health Records Increase the Risk of Medical Malpractice?
February 25th, 2020
Most adults are old enough to remember going to the doctor’s office and seeing their doctor flip through the pages of their chart, looking at their history, gathering information that was right there at their fingertips. These days, your doctor may…
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Categories: Medical Malpractice
Tags: Medication
Doctors Overprescribing Oxycodone: Understand the Risks
November 26th, 2018
As an ideal, medicine is a partnership: a patient brings their unique knowledge of their body and their symptoms; the doctor brings their training and experience in practice. With the information provided by the patient, the doctor’s observatio…
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Categories: Medical Malpractice
Tags: Medication
Did Your Pharmacy Fail to Warn You About a Drug Interaction?
September 13th, 2017
Your parents or grandparents may have gotten their medicine from a local family-owned pharmacy, where the pharmacist knew his customers and their families personally. Most of those pharmacies are gone now, replaced by large chain drugstores. What the…
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Categories: Medical Malpractice
Tags: Medication
When Is a Medication Error Worth Suing Over?
February 25th, 2016
Medication errors are disturbingly common in the United States. At least one well-respected study determined that over 1.5 million people are injured or killed by medication errors each year. These errors include mistakes made in prescribing and admi…
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Categories: Medical Malpractice
Tags: Medication
