Drug Dealers Make Mistakes

I'm talking about doctors. Probably not the drug dealers that you were thinking of, huh. A new report came out that says drug errors injure more than 1.5 million people every year. Part of the problem is that doctors handwriting is so poor and medicines and dosages get lost in translation. They're not the only ones at fault. This report also found that parents give their kids the wrong over-the-counter fever medicine dosage 47 percent of the time! To help solve some of these problems, many are pushing to have all prescriptions electronically written by 2010. This article also includes consumer tips on how to avoid medicine errors. Click here.