Personal Injury Law

Rite Aid Drug Store is sued for Prescription Drug Error

By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

The family of a man has sued the drug store Rite Aide, alleging that a medical error at the pharmacy led to the victim?s premature and wrongful death. The medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that Rite Aid pharmacists were negligent when they issued a lethal dose of chemotherapy drug to the man, who developed malignant melanoma that had spread to his brain in 2007. The prescription instructed the man to take 14 capsules by mouth daily of the drug which was ten times the usual dose of the drug and almost double of what is known to be fatal. The man took the excessively high dose, which allowed his cancer to rapidly grow and led to his premature death. The actions of the pharmacist were grossly negligent. The doctor who issued the prescription admitted his medical error and settled with the family out of court. Mislabeling prescriptions is a common form of medical malpractice. To read more about the medical malpractice case, please click the link.

Full post as published by Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).