Physician and Pharmacist Liability: Medicolegal Cases That are Tough Pills to Swallow
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Maria C. Kaisler; Benjamin J. Sandefur; Gregory P Moore; John C.S. Schupbach
- Source
- Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, Vol 5, Iss 2 (2021)
- Subject
- media_common.quotation_subject
education
medication error
Pharmacist
Emergency Nursing
01 natural sciences
Medication prescription
Medication error
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Jury
Malpractice
Patient harm
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
0101 mathematics
health care economics and organizations
media_common
business.industry
RC86-88.9
010102 general mathematics
Liability
prescribing
Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
medicine.disease
Pill
Medical Legal Case Reports
Emergency Medicine
Medical emergency
liability
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2474-252X
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 obvious whether the physician or pharmacist is at fault. These cases highlight the importance of understanding the roles and responsibilities of the physician and pharmacist in medication prescription and dispensation.