Every medication available poses potential risks to patients.
Some can cause serious side effects while others may interact
negatively with various other prescriptions. In addition,
failure to measure out proper dosages can leave patients with
too little or too much of a given drug, which can cause a great
deal of harm as well. Not all medication errors occur when
doctors scribble instructions on a prescription pad, nurses
administer drugs in a hospital or when pharmacists fill these
drugs. A recent study explores just how often these errors occur
at home.