Medications: Prescribing Errors
Tragic errors can be made in prescribing medications.1 “Studies have shown that 15% to 21% of prescriptions contain at least one prescribing error.” 2 Sometimes the doctor doesn’t remember your drug allergies; sometimes he’s not considering the other drugs you are on; sometimes the doctor’s handwriting is poor; many times the doctor isn’t recalling the…
Medications: Side Effects and Medication Interactions
Doctors can’t possibly know all the side effects of all the drugs they prescribe or how all those drugs might interact with each other. And studies report that most doctors still don’t use an electronic drug-checker to check for reactions between your drugs (drug-drug interactions).1 “Physicians do not routinely screen for potential drug interactions, even…