Sacramento Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Medication Errors in Sacramento, California

Consult a Sacramento medication error attorney or lawyer if you have been injured as a result of medical malpractice in the form of a medication or prescription error.

The National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine has reported that medication errors are among the most widespread of medical malpractice claims.  The Food and Drug Administration reports that fatal medication errors have accounted for about 10% of all reported medication errors.  From the improper administering of medications to the administering of toxic drugs, medication errors occur regularly throughout Sacramento and the nation. 

Medication errors come in many different forms and can be extremely devastating or even fatal.  Medication errors can be caused by a doctor, a hospital, or a pharmacy.  Many of these errors are the result of too much or too little medication, the wrong medication, and drug interaction.  Other causes of medication errors include:

• The failure to have updated information about drug warnings
• The failure to obtain complete patient information, including information about other medications a patient is taking, allergies, previous diagnoses, and lab results
• A miscommunication of drug orders between doctors and nurses or between doctors and pharmacists
• A confusion between drugs with similar names
• Poor handwriting and inappropriate abbreviations
• The failure to appropriately label a drug as it is prepared and repackaged into smaller units

Doctors, pharmacists, and other medical professionals are obligated to monitor the medications that patients are prescribed and given and how they will affect the patient.  When they fail to meet this duty, then a claim for medication error malpractice can arise.

At the Sacramento Medication Errors Law Firm, we understand the devastating affects that may occur as a result of medication errors.  Our Sacramento medical malpractice attorneys and lawyers are committed to ensuring that negligent doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals are held accountable for their actions.  We are committed to ensuring that our clients receive the fair and just compensation they deserve.

At the Sacramento Medication Errors Law Firm, we have handled cases where patients have been overmedicated and suffered severe and sometimes deadly injuries as a result and where patients have been under medicated during surgical procedures and as a result suffered tremendously.  As a leading Sacramento Mediation Errors Law Firm, we will thoroughly investigate your case to identify each and every potential source of liability. 

We offer free initial Sacramento medication error case evaluations.  Contact a Sacramento medical malpractice lawyer at our firm today.