What's the last medical mistake that happened to you or your family?

Asked by JLeslie (65425) February 19th, 2017 from iPhone

I’ve told a few over the years here. This is my vent for the latest, and your chance to vent too.

A couple of weeks ago a doctor prescribed me an injection. When I picked it up from the pharmacy my sister happened to be with me. She checked and the pharmacy was giving me the wrong size needle. They pharmacist swapped out the needle. Then I asked my sister to look up the dose. She said she had never given that much to anyone (she’s a nurse) but doesn’t give that medicine very often. The pharmacy had given me 2g. When my sister looked it up she said it was the maximum dose. I don’t want the maximum dose, I’m not a 250 pound man.

Anyway, I went to the doctor, and geared myself up mentally to discuss the dose with my doctor. It’s not easy you know, a lot of doctors don’t take well to what they might see as a challenge to their knowledge or prescribing orders. I put the drug on the table where we both were sitting, and started to say I don’t want the full dose, and while I talked she picked up the bottle to look at it. She said with a little horror in her voice, “it’s supposed to be 250mg.”