Wrong medicine in prescription bottle

[Anonymous]

Report to FDA. This is very serious.

[Anonymous]

This was a potentially FATAL mistake. It MUST be escalated to the head pharmacist at that CVS, the headquarters of CVS Pharmacy, and the Board of Pharmacists in the state you live.

I really hope you took pictures of the mistake (bottle, label, close-up of wrong pill, and correct prescription), because probably nothing will get done without proof. If you don't have proof, you must contact these people anyway because next time there's a mistake at that pharmacy, it will be hopefully be remembered.

Please congratulate your daughter on her quick thinking! She could have died.

[Anonymous]

Is it a chain pharmacy? If so, there are procedures in place that must be followed for errors like this. We once got the wrong dosage of a controlled substance and when I brought it back, they had already reported that an error happened because the inventory was off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Just to clarify, she of course brought the bottle back and they just apologized and gave her the correct medicine . I don’t know if it should to any farther than that .

Whoever she gave it to will tell someone and it will get discussed. Is it more important someone not die or someone not get fired? Don't give it another thought.

You are giving the clerk she handed it to WAY too much credit. At best a 50/50 that she told someone who matters what happened. Are you always this passive in life? Of course this should be reported.

DP here. I know the person in charge of my pharmacy and told her when this happened. OP doesn't have to go all Karen but if I was managing a pharmacy I'd certainly one to know if someone screwed up this badly. I would just give the highest-up person at the pharmacy the information and let them handle it.

I am sick of responsible citizens being called Karens.

Someone made a mistake that could kill a customer .

It needs reporting to those with oversight responsibilities!!

[Anonymous]

Thank you all. We will make sure we report it to the head pharmacist . It was a Walgreens and yes I also worry that someone is taking a thyroid medicine but needs this blood thinner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all. We will make sure we report it to the head pharmacist . It was a Walgreens and yes I also worry that someone is taking a thyroid medicine but needs this blood thinner.

Walgreens is the worst. I had lots of pharmacy school friends in college and even then nobody wanted to work for them.

[Anonymous]

Of course you report this OP.

Safeway gave me expiring meds once but stamped a new sticker with a 1 year expiration date on it when it was expiring within a month. So for 2 months I would have had expired meds. The person who filled it was too lazy to even transfer it to their bottle and gave it to me in original bottle and that is how I found out. I reported it but they didn't seem to care.

[Anonymous]

Report it to the pharmacy board for the state where this happened. I did this in Maryland some years ago and they did not mess around.