Medication errors up 462% since Obamacare

[jmyrlefuller]

http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/womans-skin-melts-off-after-medication-error/438126276

An 11Alive investigation discovered those errors are happening at an alarming rate.

According to the Food and Drug and Drug Administration, errors jumped from 16,689 in 2010 to more than 93,930 in 2016. That’s a 462 percent increase.

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The FDA says the spike is due to improvements made to its reporting system over the past two years. Pharmacy industry experts believe the numbers also reflect more people filling more prescriptions than ever.

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Matt Perri is a pharmacy professor at the University of Georgia. “When pharmacists get busier or pressure gets placed on the pharmacist, it makes it harder for them to do their jobs accurately,” he said.

To reduce errors, some states have tried to limit the number of prescriptions a pharmacist can fill to about 150 per shift. Georgia has no limits. Perri isn’t sure what the magic number would be, but he believes there could be benefits in setting limits.

I believe these are all a part of it.

(Though not all of it... my father was stricken blind by a surgeon giving him the wrong medication.)

[Frank Cannon]

An 11Alive investigation

11 Alive? We used to have one of those back in the 70's in the tri-state area.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72VfydJb4C4

[Cripplecreek]

The FDA says the spike is due to improvements made to its reporting system over the past two years. Pharmacy industry experts believe the numbers also reflect more people filling more prescriptions than ever.

Before I read the story I suspected it had to do with more prescriptions being filled. It was really the only way to explain it (combined with better reporting). People who aren't used to getting their prescriptions filled probably aren't paying close attention. I've caught pharmacist mistakes before because I don't take any prescription before making sure its correct.

Doctors really like patients who know their prescriptions and dosages. My hot Korean dentist was thrilled that I did half her job before she ever saw me. I knew the tooth needed to come out and I knew she wouldn't do it with an infected abscess. I went and got a prescription for antibiotics and finished them the day before my dentist appointment. The dentist said I saved about 3 weeks by getting the antibiotics before I ever contacted her.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

FDA says a lot of things.

FDA has said in the past that these highly addictive garbage drugs are safe for human beings to become addicted to.

https://ssristories.org/all-posts/

I've always found it perplexing that folks will believe what the Federal Government tells them about medicine, despite the plain as the nose on their face that it's the same Federal Government which they Don't trust in any other area at all.