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A Pill Organizing Plight

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Brittany McGalliard, PharmD; Rita Shane, PharmD; and Sonja Rosen, MD; September 2016

An elderly woman with multiple medical conditions experienced new onset dizziness and lightheadedness. A home visit revealed numerous problems with her medications, with discontinued medications remaining in her pillbox and a new prescription that was missing. In addition, on some days she was taking up to five blood pressure pills, when she was supposed to be taking only two.

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Over Not So Easy

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Russ Cucina, MD, MS; July 2006

Despite full documentation and a wristband regarding her severe food allergy, an inpatient is advertently fed eggs and suffers an allergic reaction.

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Language Barrier

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Glenn Flores, MD; April 2006

With no one to interpret for them and pharmacy instructions printed only in English, non–English-speaking parents give their child a 12.5-fold overdose of a medication.

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Confusion With Acetaminophen

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James E. Heubi, MD ; January 2006

Parents of a 5-year-old, told to give their son acetaminophen for his fever, return 2 days later because he is acutely ill. Tests reveal dangerously high acetaminophen levels. It turns out the parents had miscalculated the dosage.

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Poor Prognosis

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Elizabeth B. Lamont, MD, MS; September 2004

Following hernia repair surgery, an elderly woman is incidentally found to have a mass in her neck. Expecting the worst, the treating physician recommends palliative care and withdrawal of mechanical ventilation, before biopsy results are in.

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No Blood, Please

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Bryan A. Liang, MD, PhD, JD; May 2004

Understanding that she may lose her life without it, a woman severely injured in a collision rejects a blood transfusion for religious reasons. However, her parents persuade the physicians otherwise, and the woman lives.

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Lethal Cap

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Dean Schillinger, MD; March 2004

A misunderstanding of instructions on how to administer medication leads to an infant choking on a syringe cap.

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Urine a Tough Position

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Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH; October 2003

Switched urine specimens lead to a patient receiving the wrong answer about her pregnancy test.

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