A major audit of electronic prescriptions across 68 regional pharmacies in the North Island has revealed that more than one in four prescription errors detected carried a high risk of serious patient harm.
The week-long Script Audit, developed after the death of a two-month-old baby earlier this year, recorded 1,257 prescription problems, most involving incorrect doses, wrong quantities, missing details or inappropriate medications.
Pharmacists told media they are acting as the “last line of defence” against flawed electronic systems and prescriber mistakes, yet this workload is unrecognised and unfunded as they spend minutes to days resolving issues with GPs, specialists and junior doctors.
Both pharmacists and GPs expressed frustration at outdated and error-prone IT systems, shortages of fail-safes, and poor communication channels, with the report warning that nationwide changes are urgently needed and that “doing nothing is no longer a defensible option.”
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Pharmakeia
Black Magic
Witchcraft
Placebo’s
100% spot on
Pharmakeia is the ancient Greek word translated into sorcery in the bible
The same pharmakeia is where the modern words “pharmacy” and “pharmaceutical” are derived from.
I haven’t had any prescription for anything for over 11 years and I haven’t seen any doctor for over 7 years because a) I don’t trust doctors, and b) the doctors seem to be drug-enforcement agents for big pharma rather than being real doctors
The entire doctor-industry and medical-industry exploits the fear or people – people are afraid and then hope these prescriptions fix their fear.
Stop being afraid. Abandoning your fear is the first step to healing yourselves.
Fake medicines anyway
Exactly all of the above