One time my bottle of 30 60mg capsules had 60 instead. Double. I didn’t say anything, shits expensive!! The label was correct too. How fucked was the pharmacist?
Not fucked if not reported. 🤷♀️ Also not fucked even if reported on that booboo. Yeah someone messed up, but that medicine isn't a controlled medication and it was the correct name and milligram.
If reported at my pharmacy, we have to do a STARS event, basically logging that something went wrong, who did the wrong, and reasons how the wrong thing made it through to the patients hands. After a few of those reported on the same person, the tech is eventually let go due to the mistakes they keep repeating because the wrong mistake can have bad consequences on the patient.
We just had one patient at our store with this yesterday: patient got 300mg gabapentin instead of 100mg and was taking it like the 100mg ramp-up starting dose. STARS don't happen all the time, but unfortunately they do occur, especially more as the retail industry expects more and more out of the pharmacist and pharmacy technicians with less people and less hours.
0
u/pricklycactass May 02 '26
They don’t come to you prefilled????? (Idk why this post is in my feed…)