Visiting the pharmacy to get a prescription filled can be dangerous. Nearly 2.5 billion prescriptions were filled by pharmacists in 1998 alone. The more prescriptions that are filled, the greater the chances that a medication error will occur. Studies have shown that three to five percent of all prescriptions ordered were improperly filled and posed potentially fatal or injurious threats to the patient's health.

Examples of the kinds of pharmacy errors that can occur on a daily basis:

• Giving the patient the wrong prescription medication
• Filling the right drug for the prescription, but in the wrong dosage
• Prescribing a prescription to the wrong patient
• Including the wrong instructions with the right prescription drug

Unsuspecting patients who are trusting pharmacists to properly fill their prescriptions so they can get better may actually be getting worse due to pharmacist errors or pharmacy negligence.

Lebowitz and Mzhen has years of experience in successfully representing individuals who have been injured or become ill due to a pharmacy misfill or other kind of pharmacy error. We have successfully handled and won pharmacy error cases against several of the largest retail pharmacies in the U.S.

If you or someone you loved has been injured or died due to a pharmacy error in the Washington D.C. area or in the state of Maryland, call our toll-free number at 1-888-311-HURT (4878) to schedule your free, no obligation consultation. You can also send an e-mail to Jack Lebowitz or Vadim Mzhen.