Some prescription medication errors occur in a patient's home and are therefore not the fault of any medical professional. The patient or their caregiver misremembers the doctor's instructions or mixes up several medications with poor results. However, medication...
Medication Errors
Medication errors are a risk for patients
Medical providers aren’t immune to making mistakes. Unfortunately, those mistakes can quickly put a person’s life in danger or cause them serious injuries. Making a mistake on the dosage of a medication, providing too much of the medication or even prescribing the...
You can use your mobile phone to avoid medication errors
Medical mistakes happen all the time in the hospital, and quite a few of them involve prescription medications. Both the pills that staff members hand out throughout the day and the medications administered intravenously in liquid form can do more harm than good if...
Why do pharmacists give patients the wrong medications?
When patients receive a prescription for specific medications, they typically get that prescription from a medical provider, like a doctor or surgeon. That prescription is ordered at a local pharmacy. The technician in the pharmacy may put together the order, and the...
Can you minimize the risk of a prescription error?
Medication errors happen far too often in the United States. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), as many as 9,000 people in this country die every year due to medication errors and hundreds of thousands more suffer lesser injuries....
LV Attorneys and Clients Featured in Recent 10TV Piece
Earlier this week, 10TV reporter Bennett Haeberle and the 10 Investigates Team published "Deadly Dosage: The Doctor Husel Chronicles," which provides a fantastic overview of what we know about the Mount Carmel cases thus far. The videos feature LV attorneys Gerry...
Mount Carmel Releases Investigation Timeline, Identifies Another Victim
Mount Carmel recently released an "investigation timeline" purportedly detailing what they have learned about Dr. William Husel's role in prescribing excessive and potentially fatal doses of Fentanyl. Investigation Timeline: investigation-timeline-feb22.pdf Mount...
Did Dr. Husel Improperly Declare Patients Brain Dead?
Yesterday, put out a press release advising local media that it appears Dr. Husel failed to follow guidelines for determining when a patient is "brain dead". Attorney Gerald Leeseberg stated, based on guidelines from the American...
What is in Mount Carmel’s “Plan of Correction”?
We recently obtained a copy of Mount Carmel's "Plan of Correction," which details, among other things, the following information: How Dr. Husel, the nurses, and pharmacists were able to access such inappropriate doses of pain medication for patients; Mount Carmel's...
Mount Carmel Identifies 7 More Victims, Bringing Total to 34
Yesterday, Mount Carmel announced it has identified seven more patients who recevied potentially lethal doses of fentanyl at the hands of Dr. William Husel. It announced one of these new victims likely recevied a fatal doasge. The other six, however, received amounts...