Subject: Re: [Homestead] Horses, lab errors, and educational defiicits
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:14:13 -0400
EarthNSky wrote:
Dilutions. Fundamental math. Probably a factor of ten, or they messed
up the units. Sad, sad state of affairs. As typical, I smell a lawsuit.
Or carelessly used mg for meq, or grain/gram, or some other wacky
conversion mess. It would pay humans and critters alike if the
pharmaceutical field could manage to standardize their measurement
systems worldwide.
I just picked up potassium script yesterday; someone had used milligrams
(mg) instead of milliequivilants (meq). Fortunately for me I'm
suspicious of them all.....
In this case especially glaring since every doctor I've worked for or
gone to (or any of my clients have used)up here has written all scripts
for K in meq's. The very idea that someone thought "mg's" should have
been a heads-up.....apparently didn't think at all. Question and
check every med you are forced to buy, both for name of med and dosage,
and make sure it's the same as the RX called for.