Gainesville Dangerous Drugs Attorney

Florida Prescription Drug and Medication Errors

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that every year there are 7,000 deaths and between 777,000 and 1,300,000 injuries that can be attributed to medication errors. The FDA also reports as much as 20% of medication doses have some type of error. If you or someone you love has suffered due to a medication error, a Gainesville personal injury attorney may be able to help.

Injuries from dangerous drugs can be due to many different types of errors and can be caused by a variety of people. When you are ill and you go to a doctor or the hospital, you trust that the information you are given is not only correct, but safe as well. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.  Doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff sometimes make errors due to negligence, and in these situations, the patient becomes the victim. Furthermore, even if the correct drug and dosage is prescribed, the pharmacy technician may fill it incorrectly, and again the patient suffers. If you have been a victim of a medication error in Florida, contact a Gainesville dangerous drugs lawyer at the Uman Law Firm immediately. 

Doctor, Nurse, and Hospital Errors:

• Prescribing the wrong type of a drug
• Prescribing the wrong dosage amount of a drug
• Providing the wrong dosage instructions for a drug
• Prescribing a drug to which the patient has a known allergy
• Prescribing a drug that should not be mixed with another drug that is already being taken by the patient

Pharmacy Errors:

• Filling a prescription with the wrong type of drug
• Filling a prescription with wrong dosage amount of a drug
• Providing the wrong dosage instructions for a drug

Just as patients rely on their doctors to provide them with accurate information about their health and their medicine, doctors rely on pharmaceutical companies to produce safe drugs and to clearly list all possible side effects. Drug companies, however, are large corporations that are very focused on the bottom line, and they do not always perform an adequate amount of testing and do not always make the potential side effects clear. This can lead to serious injury and even death.

Dangerous Drugs and Pharmaceutical Recalls:

• Some drugs that have been recalled, have been proven to cause injury, or are under investigation are: Accolate®, Accutane®, Avandia®, Baycol®, Bextra®, Birth Control Patch, Byetta®, Chantix®,  Celebrex®, Cipro®, Crestor®, Depo-Provera®, Digitek®, Dostinex®, Enbrel®, Ephedra, Gadolinium, Gardasil®, Heparin®, Hydroxycut®, Lamisil®, OxyContin®, Paxil®, Permax®, Premarin®, Provera®, Raptiva®, Trasylol®, Vioxx®, Vytorin®, Yasmin®, Yaz®

Contact a Gainesville Dangerous Drugs Attorney today for a free consultation. Attorney Jon D. Uman is committed to helping you obtain compensation for your Florida dangerous drugs and prescription errors injuries.