Medication malpractice, also known as pharmacy error, is another leading cause of injuries and death in the U.S. today. This is something that Robert Webb of Webb & D’Orazio, personal injury attorneys in Atlanta, Georgia, knows.<\/p>\n
Statistics on pharmacy errors in the U.S. are quite chilling \u2013 more than 1.3 million people have experienced and will experience the consequences of this type of error yearly. Of that 1.3 million total, close to 100,000 die. Those numbers are staggering and certainly make one take a close second look at the prescription they just picked up.<\/p>\n
It’s not just injuries and\/or death that is the expected fall out from being given the wrong medication, it’s the cost of treating these kinds of errors that should also give patients pause for thought. Treating these kinds of errors costs taxpayers, on average, over $72 billion a year. All this because someone was given the wrong medications.<\/p>\n