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Pharmacy mixes up prescriptions.

February 16, 2011

Brushwood DB. Pharmacy Today. 2017;23(12):42.

This article reports on a court case of a pharmacy error involving similar patient names. A pregnant woman was mistakenly given a chemotherapy medication instead of an antibiotic.

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