Like most people, you probably run to your medicine cabinet every time you suffer from a headache or other minor ailment. When you are suffering from a more serious condition or injury, you are probably also used to visiting your doctor and having them prescribe medication to help you feel better. But what happens when the medicine that you took ends up making you sicker? Is there anywhere you can turn for help?
Fortunately, a Wesley Chapel dangerous drugs lawyer is dedicated to helping people like you. An experienced personal injury attorney could help you get through these challenging times by assisting you with a legal claim against the responsible parties.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers have a duty to ensure that the products they create, produce, and distribute to consumers are reasonably safe. All drugs have some side effects and are not safe for everybody. However, drug companies should try to reduce those side effects by ensuring that their drug serves its purpose while causing the least harm. The benefits of a proposed new drug must outweigh the possible drawbacks. If a proposed drug poses too much of a risk to too many people, drug manufacturers should find an alternative option.
Manufacturers should subject their drugs to a rigorous testing process. This must take place over a substantial period of time, and it must include people of different ages, genders, races, and sizes in order to assess how the drug affects different types of people. If a drug manufacturer discovers any potentially adverse side effects, they need to disclose them to the federal government and inform consumers. Manufacturers must sell their drugs with proper usage instructions so that a consumer does not mistakenly take too large or too small a dose. The drug’s labeling and packaging should also contain full warnings about any possible side effects or contraindications with other medications.
Our skilled Wesley Chapel attorneys could carefully scrutinize the manufacturing and testing process to assess whether a drug is inherently dangerous. We could check that the company followed proper procedures. We could also review the drug’s warning labels to see if a typical consumer could fully understand the potential risks of taking the drug.
Sometimes, people suffer negative side effects after taking a medication, even if the drug they took was reasonably safe. Problems can occur when someone makes a mistake in the prescribing, administration, or preparation of a drug.
Doctors can make prescription mistakes if they do not check their patient’s medical history. For example, when a doctor mistakenly prescribes a drug to a patient who is allergic to one of its components, they could suffer a dangerous allergic reaction. They can also make prescription mistakes by prescribing too high or too low a dosage.
Similarly, if a physician prescribes a drug that negatively interacts with another medication the patient is taking, the patient could become sick.
Before a healthcare worker administers medication to a patient, they should ensure that they are giving it to the correct patient in the correct dosage. Giving the wrong dosage or medication can create serious problems.
Pharmacists need to follow a doctor’s prescription precisely. They also need to include all warnings and instructions with the drug’s packaging.
Our Wesley Chapel attorneys could skillfully investigate what happened to learn what and who made a particular medication dangerous to you. We could determine where the mistake occurred.
Drugs are supposed to help people. If you took a prescription or over-the-counter medication that hurt you or made your condition worse, you could have cause to pursue a civil lawsuit. Call a Wesley Chapel dangerous drugs lawyer today to discuss the details of your drug injury. LMD Injury Lawyers could help you to get the compensation you deserve.
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