Medication Errors That Happen On Purpose

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Medication Errors That Happen On Purpose

Medication errors happen all too often, usually due to misfilling mistakes made by a pharmacist, mistakes made at the time of administration by a nurse or inadequate followup by a physician.  As horrifying as negligent medication errors are, consider something worse: an intentional medication error.  That’s exactly what the US Department of Justice found when investigating a large pharmaceutical company’s promotion of three popular medications: Avandia, Paxil and Wellbutrin.

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