03 | 31 | 2007 Posted By George L. Garrow, Jr., of The Garrow Law Firm, DC

A Lifetime of Injury Due to A Preventable Pharmacy Error

A simple mistake by an inattentive pharmacist has costs Alexandria and the Gehrke family a lifetime of harm and injury. As profit and the growth of mega drug stores become a staple of American life, more deadly errors are occurring causing serious and permanent injuries.

In a four-month ABC “20/20" investigation, journalist Brian Ross and his team went undercover and found that many prescriptions are not even filled by pharmacists but by pharmacy technicians who are often just high school students. Pharmacists are supposed to then check each prescription. But this rare undercover look at the country’s top big-chain drug stores revealed a shocking rate of everyday errors and a failure to spot potentially dangerous drug interactions. Regular people seeking to get needed medicine sometimes are injured for life. Learn more.