"Pharmacist mistakes abortion drug for antibiotic"

Honestly. How do you screw that up?

 

I sense a lawsuit brewing.

You'd think that the bottle would say "powerful abortion drug" or something along those lines, and that she'd check it before popping a pill.

Feel sorry for the unborn kid though. Birth defects ahoy.

 

You'd think so
Again, you'd think so
Either that, or just no child

What I want to know is under what circumstances would the pills for abortions and antibiotics be anywhere near each other? I mean, really. There should be no way that this could happen.

 

that poor girl she will probably feel gilty for not checking the name of the pill before consuming one...... I don't know how I would handle that type of gilt

 

She may even fully abort, instead of dealing with potential complications.

 

And honestly, this is what I would suggest. But seriously, with something as important as a new life, how do you mess things up like that?

 

Yeesh. If that person wasn't fired yet, do so.

...However, the only thing I can think in regards to Ms Silva is that in my opinion she was a little too young to be having the child anyway. But hey! I'm a sadistic ***** who doesn't register a foetus under eight-to-twelve weeks of gestation as a human being.

 

Many people would call this 'human error'.
I, however, call it 'A colossal slap to the face of Literacy!'
If you can't read the ****ing label properly you shouldn't have a ****ing job in a pharmacy! All you bloody do is read labels, how much brain power does that take up?! You get a degree in Pharmacuticals but you **** up where it really matters, well bloody done!

 

Well, maybe she was actually ready to have a kid to be raised in a stable home? It could be, although it's possible that it's hardly the case.

In any event, the whole mistake was just too horrid. Imagine going to the pharmacy to get some anti-diarrhea and actually getting something to make you go even more. I know it's not the exact case, but I'm trying to bring it to a level where we can all relate.

It'd be whack. And sometimes catastrophic, as in the case of this girl, who's turnout wasn't as funny as some pooping mishap.

 

...At that age, I'm not entirely sure if that's possible or not. It's definitely not a common situation over here - at 19 you're most likely to be in college digs, with maybe a retail job if you're lucky.

 

About the pharmacist, I'm not defending his mistake, but I do want to point out in the past all doctors wrote in "short hand writing" which is a fast cursive writing that can make it almost impossible to discern what it actually says in most cases, favored by the people with doctorate degrees, such as doctors psychiatrists and vets. Personally, I think it's a habit from graduate school, where the lecture is so fast you need to do short-hand to keep up. The problem is, before they made most, note: Not all, prescriptions typed, this mistake happened a helluva lot more. Where I go for a doctor, they still usually use short-hand prescription fill-outs. Meaning you can't read what it says on the slip. At least I can't, but I go somewhere where they call the hospital to make sure. The pharmacist should have made sure that the prescription was right. I don't think most doctors would allow anyone to take an abortion pill instead of the procedure in the hospital. Where it's safer, more sterilized and if anything goes wrong, they're there to help.

I had a friend of mine who went through pre-labor and lost the baby. She said it was massively traumatizing and emotionally scarring, at the least, the hospital would make sure that the woman was okay afterward and not showing any signs of ill-effects. Note: That's most hospitals, not all.

As for the mother, yes, she should have checked. The abortion pill is one large pill, while antibiotics are usually many small pills. She should have called the doctor to make sure or at least read the sticker on it.

I do agree, yes, unfortunately the baby should be aborted due to the complications to the mother and the baby itself even if it manages to survive the pills affects.

 

Although, I do think it could have been a case of Ms. Silva (and actually many others), they just trust what they are given. I mean yeah people make mistakes, but generally, especially in a pharmacy where mistakes can have dire consequences (such as this), you just assume to think it won't happen.
I'm not particularly medically minded, so even if I read a bottle, heck, I still might be wrong about what it is I need... I'm not the type to remember the name of a pill or something, so if I gave in a prescription and was given what the pharmacist had told me to be the drug I needed. I would be inclined to believe him and just pop said pill.

I mean, it's a shame that it could have been avoided if 'a' the pharmacy was more careful and 'b' if she HAD read the label.

But at the same time, I don't think she should be blamed for not reading the bottle, I mean, it wasn't her job in the first place to even need to check.
The pharmacy and in particular the pharmacist have no excuse.

I feel sorry for the poor woman and the poor baby. :/
I just hope that everything is going to be okay, I can't imagine what she must be going through or how she must be feeling right now.

 

As horrible as it is, I have to back up Sara's point. I don't even bother trying to understand my doctors' notes, I just hand them over to the pharmacy. Occasionally, they'll ask something along the lines of "Oh, you're sick with *names a symptom*" or "oh, you want this medicine?" And I can usually answer with a yes if I paid attention to my doctor. But the way they write is hard to normally read. Plus the fact that it said the drug she wanted and the drug she was given had similar names.