You trusted the hospital to give you the right medication at the right dose. Instead, a nurse administered ten times the prescribed amount of blood thinner, sending you into a life-threatening hemorrhage. Or maybe they gave you medication meant for another patient, causing a severe allergic reaction that landed you in intensive care?

Hospital medication errors happen more frequently than you’d expect—and they’re almost always preventable. When they happen to you, don’t let individual and systemic failures leave you with pain, suffering, additional bills, or lifelong challenges!

Common Types of Medication Errors

• Wrong Medication: Patients receive drugs intended for other patients or completely different medications than prescribed, often due to similar drug names or packaging.
• Incorrect Dosage: Patients receive too much or too little of the correct medication. These errors are particularly dangerous with insulin, blood thinners, or chemotherapy drugs.
• Wrong Route of Administration: Medications meant to be taken orally are injected intravenously, or injectable drugs are given orally, causing serious complications.
• Drug Interactions: Dangerous combinations occur when staff fail to check for interactions between multiple medications or don’t review the patient’s medical history.
• Timing Errors: Critical medications are given too early, too late, or missed entirely, disrupting treatment effectiveness and potentially causing harm.

Who Can Be Held Responsible?

• Nurses: Can be liable for failing to follow proper protocols, not double-checking orders, or administering medications incorrectly.
• Doctors: Physicians who prescribe inappropriate medications, incorrect dosages, or fail to consider drug interactions can be held responsible.
• Pharmacists: Hospital pharmacists who fill prescriptions incorrectly or fail to catch dangerous interactions bear responsibility for medication errors.
• Hospitals: The institution can be liable for inadequate staffing, poor training, defective storage systems, or failure to implement proper safety protocols.

Most medication errors result from systemic hospital problems rather than individual mistakes, including understaffing that leads to rushed care, inadequate training, poor communication between departments, and failure to implement proven safety protocols.

Hold All Responsible Parties Accountable

Medication errors are preventable mistakes that occur when hospitals prioritize profits over patient safety. When multiple parties share responsibility, all of them must be held accountable. The Law Offices of Tim Misny can help you determine who’s responsible for your medication error and get the compensation you deserve.

When hospitals and their staff make preventable mistakes that harm you, I’ll Make Them Pay!^® Call my office at (877) 614-9524 so that I can evaluate your case right away.