When patients receive prescriptions from medical staff, they expect the medication to be beneficial to their health and wellness. And while this is true in many cases, medication errors are an unfortunately common occurrence. While the responsibility to prevent errors...
Are medication errors a major problem?
Over 6,000 medications currently exist on the market. Thus, mix-ups and other similar errors are bound to happen every so often. Unfortunately, in the cases where this leads to adverse or even potentially fatal reactions, it counts as medical malpractice. Errors from...
What should you know about medication errors?
These days, upwards of 6,000 prescription medications exist. Needless to say, it is expected for some mix-ups and errors to happen every now and then. Unfortunately, these mistakes can sometimes lead to adverse or even life-threatening reactions. In such cases, it...
How can serious medication errors happen?
After an illness or an injury, you may get a prescription for a medication that you need to take. In the time following this decision, you could start to notice signs of physical problems that were not there before. Medication errors that come from medical malpractice...
How do medication errors occur and what are the risks?
Residents of New Mexico expect to be able to seek medical care and get the right treatment. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case as medical mistakes can occur and result in harm. Medication errors can be devastating in spite of being preventable. What are...
Common medication errors and causes
With over 6,000 prescriptions available, an occasional medical error can be expected. However, a mistake with a prescription can cause adverse reactions, which could cross into medical malpractice. There are several types of medication errors a patient in Albuquerque,...
The most common medical errors and why they’re so dangerous
In New Mexico, medication errors occur far too often. Unfortunately, these errors, which are often completely avoidable when the right precautions are in place, can cause patients to suffer serious injuries or even death. There are several medication errors that are...
Provider fatigue and medication errors
There exist a number of more commonplace underlying causes for medication errors in New Mexico. These include such issues as poor communication, mixing up medications for patients with similar names and sloppy abbreviations when prescribing. Fatigue is another...
Medical errors ranked third leading cause of death in US
Medical malpractice claims and lawsuits in New Mexico are based on an array of different types of healthcare negligence. High on the proverbial list of underlying causes of medical malpractice in New Mexico and across the country are claims based on failure to...
What are the effects of overmedication?
Overmedication is a common problem that occurs when prescription errors occur due to mistakes made by health care professionals in New Mexico or another state. Taking too much medication each day can quickly lead to negative health effects, which include fatigue and a...