G. Eric Nielson & Associates, LLC

It seems that we can't go for ten minutes without seeing a television advertisement for some new medication. No matter what your affliction, there appears to be a medicine that will treat it. While advances in medical and pharmaceutical technology are saving many lives every year, medication and prescription errors can lead to serious injury, even death.

Medication and prescription errors occur under a number of circumstances:

• When a doctor neglects to take an accurate patient history
• When a doctor neglects to record medication allergies
• When a pharmacist fails to verify a prescription
• When a pharmacist incorrectly fills a prescription

While accidents happen in everyday life, medical and pharmaceutical personnel are professionals and are legally held to a high standard of care. Negligent medication and prescription errors fall below this standard of care.

A recent client of ours at G. Eric Nielson & Associates experienced the horrors that can result from prescription error when her medication was negligently switched with anxiety pills. An overdose of anxiety pills nearly put her into a coma and her experience and recovery was painful and expensive.

Because our focus at G. Eric Nielson & Associates is medical malpractice we are skilled at medical issues and familiar with the appropriate standards of care. If you, or a loved one, have been the victim of a medication or prescription error a skilled medical malpractice attorney can help you.