Pharmaceutical Litigation Malden, Boston
A medication error is a serious thing. Properly used, prescription medicines are indispensable to the treatment of many serious medical conditions. But careless medication errors can leave a person with potentially life-threatening health complications. At Rodman, Rodman & Sandman, serving clients from throughout Massachusetts including Boston and Malden, we handle pharmaceutical medical malpractice litigation for clients injured by medication errors. Retaining a lawyer ensures that you are amply compensated for all damages, financial and otherwise, that you incur as a result of a medication error.
Common Medication Errors
You can file pharmaceutical-related medical malpractice litigation with the help of a lawyer against doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other professionals whose negligent drug-related mistakes cause health problems and other damages.
The most common kinds of pharmaceutical errors include:
- Vague, illegible, or inappropriate prescription: Doctors who prescribe the wrong medicine or write vague, illegible, or incomplete prescriptions may be guilty of medical malpractice.
- Improper dosage: The wrong dosage, whether too high or too low, can be deadly. Dosage errors may be caused by administrative mistakes.
- Wrong medication: Administering the wrong medication not only fails to treat an existing condition. It also creates the risk of side effects from an unnecessary drug, including potentially deadly interactions with other medications.
- Defective drugs: Medicines that are improperly manufactured may be contaminated or dangerously potent, justifying defective pharmaceutical litigation.
Potential Damages from Medication Errors
Medication errors, like surgical errors and other forms of medical malpractice, have potentially dire consequences. If you are injured in any way by an improperly administered pharmaceutical, you may have grounds for medical malpractice litigation. Contact a lawyer at Rodman, Rodman & Sandman, located near Boston in Malden, Massachusetts, to discuss your case.
Potential consequences of medication errors include:
- Drug interactions: Your prescriptions are carefully selected to avoid potentially harmful drug interactions. Administering the wrong drug, or the wrong amount of a needed drug, can cause dangerous interactions. Deadly allergic reactions are also possible.
- Overdose: Administering too high a dose of a potent medicine can quickly trigger adverse effects. Some drugs, such as blood thinners and painkillers, can be fatal at too high a dose.
- Underdose: An underdose can be just as dangerous as an overdose, as certain doses are required to effectively treat the condition in question. Inappropriately low doses of antibiotics and similar drugs can contribute to the development of drug-resistant strains of bacteria and viruses, which typically require lengthier treatment and costlier drugs to control.
- Delay in treatment: If the wrong drug or the wrong dose is administered, an urgent medical condition may go untreated for hours or days, allowing it to further damage the body and making it harder to treat once the mistake is discovered.
Discuss Pharmaceutical Litigation with a Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Contact Rodman, Rodman & Sandman today to consult a veteran medical malpractice lawyer regarding pharmaceutical litigation. Serving Malden and Boston, Massachusetts since 1957, we continue to win high-value cases for deserving clients from the Boston area and elsewhere.