I've received the wrong medicine and been billed the incorrect amount due to them sending through wrong insurance on more than one occasion. I refuse to use CVS anymore.
my company changed our health plan options, and one of the changes is in order to get a best price we must use cvs for our prescriptions, and if you are on maintenance prescriptions, you won't be covered for any benefits unless you use cvs. I refuse to use cvs because it isn't convenient. I use safeway and they give me good deals on the maintenance stuff, so i don't have to go to cvs. If i used cvs i would only save a small amount anyway, but that's because all my meds have a generic.
In a car accident with neck and back pain so they go to Disney to ride, rides. This will be interesting.
Maybe she is just outright allergic to percoset (like me) and it was only under a slightly higher dosage that symptoms showed. The lower dose might have eventually showed those signs too.
Stevens Johnson Syndrome is an idiosyncratic reaction to many things including medications. It is not dose dependent and this woman would not have avoided the reaction if she had taken the 5 mg dose rather than the 10 mg dose. She would not have known whether the pharmacy had dispensed the wrong medication strength based on the pill size or color unless she had been using Percocet in the past. Reading the label, she could not have known if the dose dispensed was wrong or not (most everyone trusts the pharmacist to do the right thing, which they do in 99.99999% of cases.)
If CVS's lawyer cannot mount a winning defense, that lawyer should be disbarred. However, CVS must somehow explain what they have done to prevent this type incident again. I suspect CVS, like many commercial pharmacies today stock 10 mg Percocet and intend to direct the patient to take 1/2 a tablet (which gives 5 mg per dose). Many patients don't read the label carefully and pop a whole pill when the directions say 1/2.
In sm8's narrative above (which does not say this was a CVS pharmacy, by the way) I will wager the medication was in liquid formulation and the dosing directions were in teaspoonful/dessertspoonful/tablespoonful quantities. This is always fraught with danger that too much medication will be given the tyke.
With mine it was NOT CVS and the dosage should have been .5 teaspoons and the dosage on the prescription was 5 teaspoons. I understand how easily that mistake could have been made but common sense told me that 5 teaspoons would be a lot for any one. My point was mistakes happen, I feel it should be everyone's responsibility to be aware of what they are putting in their or their loved ones bodies.
And that is exactly why I yell at other engineers that do not put a leading zero in front of a decimal point. That decimal point can easily be lost in a fax transmission or even by a printer with a weak toner cartridge.
Liquid medications should be dispensed, dosed and documented in metric measures. In the hospitals certified by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) doses can no longer be measured by teaspoonfuls. In sm8's case, the liquid should have been dispensed with a small syringe to measure 2.5 ml per dose. Even if the label was incorrect, it would be obvious to all concerned that 5 teaspoonfuls (25 ml) was out of the question (even the pharmacist [or pharmacy technician] could have caught that).