Solutions to Medication Error Problems

Medication error is a form of medical malpractice that causes serious injury and death to an alarming number of victims in the United States each year. The Law Office of Kenneth N. Margolin, P.C. is dedicated to helping the victims of medication errors in the State of Massachusetts. Our lawyers have experience handling all types of medication cases, including prescription errors, drug interaction mistakes, anesthesia errors, and all medication related cases. If you or a loved one has been injured or killed due to an error in medication or anesthesia, contact the Law Office of Kenneth N. Margolin, P.C. today to learn about your legal rights.

The medical profession is taking the medication error problem seriously, though much improvement is still needed.

• Most medication errors are the result of a breakdown in systems leading to a "cascade of errors" - every link in the chain from receipt of a drug into a hospital pharmacy, to administration of the medicine to the patient, must be evaluated and re-evaluated for safety.
• The concept of "redundancy" that is integral to the airline industry, must be incorporated into the administration of medication, meaning that if one part of the system fails, another will pick up the error before it harms the patient.
• Better training, especially of pharmacy technicians, many of whom earn between $8.00 - $10.00 per hour, is essential.
• Doctors must avoid the use of abbreviations when prescribing medications, as that increases the chance that the wrong drug, with a similar abbreviation, will be prescribed.
• More effort must be had from the pharmaceutical industry, to improve labeling, to sell more drugs in individual dose vials, to manufacture more drugs in pediatric strength, to avoid giving drugs similar names.
• The most promising method of discovering the cause of medication errors, in order to fix the problem, is called "root cause analysis." With root cause analysis, hospital administrators work backward from the medication error, to determine every stage in the process of care that may have broken down and contributed to the mistake.

Our firm is dedicated to protecting the rights of Massachusetts medical error victims who have suffered due to pharmaceutical and medical mistakes. If you or a loved has been a victim of prescription drug error resulting in injury or death, you may be able to file a claim against the doctor, hospital or pharmacy to recover damages for expenses and suffering. Contact a Massachusetts medication error lawyer at the Law Office of Kenneth N. Margolin, P.C. today for your free initial case review.

If you have been the victim of a Massachusetts medication error, you need the legal representation of a committed medication error attorney.