Physician and Pharmacist Liability: Medicolegal Cases That are Tough Pills to Swallow

We present four medicolegal cases involving medication errors, which led to patient harm and subsequent settlements or jury awards to patients. These cases each involved scenarios in which a medication was inappropriately prescribed and/or inappropriately dispensed. In such cases, it is often not ob...

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Published in:Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine 2021-05, Vol.5 (2), p.139-143
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