Alexandra Gehrke was a premature infant, who was prescribed Phenobarbital to prevent seizures.  The druggist gave Alexandra an adult diabetes medicine instead, leaving Alexandra 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, when a hospital pharmacy loaded the hospital medicine cabinet with vials of heparin 1000x the appropriate strength.  All three infants died.

Currently no laws, either state or federal, require pharmacies to report cases of prescription negligence or prescription mistake.  In 2007, the senior vice president of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores told 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.

Every year people die and are severely and permanently injured because pharmacies hand out the wrong drugs, instead of what has been prescribed.

As a misfilled prescriptions lawyer, Lee represents people all over Georgia, including in Cobb, Clayton, Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Henry, Polk, Floyd, and Fayette counties.  She accepts lawsuits in cities throughout the Metro area and around Georgia, including Alpharetta, Augusta, Chamblee-Dunwoody, College Park, Columbus, Conyers, Dalton, Decatur, East Atlanta, East Point, Fayetteville, Macon, Marietta, Newnan, Peachtree City, Rome, Sandy Springs, Savannah, Buford, Athens, Roswell, College Park, Duluth, Lawrenceville, Norcross, and Chamblee.

We handle cases where people have been hurt because a pharmacy, doctor, or nurse gave them the wrong dose of the right drug, or gave them the wrong drug altogether, instead of the drug that had been prescribed.