If a pharmacy gave you the wrong prescription medicine, you may have legal rights. Contact a lawyer with experience in handling a misfiled prescription medicine case like yours.

We hand over a prescription to the pharmacist, and get back a bottle of medicine. We trustingly take the medicine, assuming it is just what the doctor ordered.

But what if the pharmacist gave you the wrong medicine? What if he gave you someone else’s medicine, or put the wrong type of pill in the bottle that is labeled as being the drug you are supposed to take? If you take the wrong medication – and furthermore do not take the prescription you were prescribed – you can become very ill and suffer serious injuries, even death.

If you or a loved one has become sick because the pharmacist gave you the wrong prescription, you may have legal rights against the pharmacy. Contact a wrong prescription lawyer at the Wallace Law Firm, L.L.C.

Your lawyer needs to be experienced. Lee Wallace has been practicing for over 20 years. You want a lawyer who has handled a case like yours before. Lee Wallace has. Your lawyer should be respected by other lawyers. In polling of 25,000 Georgia lawyers, Lee Wallace has been voted one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia, and has been named a Georgia SuperLawyer every year since the poll started. She graduated first in her undergraduate class at Vanderbilt University, and is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

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What is a misfilled prescription case?

The Wallace Law Firm handles cases where people have become ill or been hurt because a pharmacy, doctor, or nurse gave them the wrong dose of the right drug, or gave them the wrong drug instead of the drug that had been prescribed for them.

The Firm is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and accepts cases throughout the United States. Lee Wallace has handled legal matters in approximately 20 states.

Prescription mistakes can have terrible consequences

Prescription medicines are supposed to help us feel better. But a misfilled prescription can have the exact opposite effect. Every year people die and are severely and permanently injured when pharmacies hand patients the wrong drugs, instead of what they had been prescribed.

In order to prevent seizures, doctors prescribed Phenobarbital to little Alexandra Gehrke, a premature infant. The druggist gave Alexandra an adult diabetes medicine instead, and after she took the medicine, Alexandra was catastrophically injured. She was unable to walk, talk or feed herself. A jury found that due to the pharmacy error Walgreens should pay the Gehrkes family $21 million for the drug mistake.

In 2007, the plight of actor Dennis Quaid’s 2-week-old twins made headlines. Hospital personnel had accidentally given the twins 1000x the appropriate dose of heparin, a blood thinner. The Quaid twins were given the right drug – but a very wrong dose. The hospital’s chief medical officer, Michael L. Langberg, admitted: “This was a preventable error, involving a failure to follow our standard policies and procedures, and there is no excuse for that to occur at Cedars-Sinai.”

The Quaid twins survived, but three Indiana infants were not so fortunate in 2007. A hospital pharmacy loaded the hospital medicine cabinet with vials of heparin that were 1000 times the appropriate strength for the infants. All three infants died after they were given an overdose of a medicine that had been prescribed to them.

Pharmacies have opposed reporting prescription errors

Pharmacies are reluctant to report cases of prescription negligence or prescription mistake. In 2007, the senior vice president of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores told ABC’s 20/20: “I don’t think it should be publicized.” Mary Ann Wagner said that the industry was concerned that people might not understand the difference between minor prescription mistakes, and major ones.

A wrong medicine lawyer

Lee Wallace is a misfilled prescriptions lawyer who represents people who have been given the wrong drug, or have been given an overdose of the right drug.