By Utah Injury Lawyer Jared Faerber of The Faerber Law Firm
“This shouldn’t have happened. It was needless. It was senseless and it’s changed lives forever, not just Jessie, but there are other people who love him and his future.”
- Laurie Scott
This is from the mother of 18-year-old Jessie Scott, a resident of Draper, Utah, who has been in a coma since the end of April because of a medication error which occurred at a Walmart Pharmacy. His doctor prescribed 5mg of Oxycodone Hydrochoride in a liquid solution to help him with the severe pain of his strep throat. What he received from the pharmacy was a concentrated solution which was supposed to have been diluted before being dispensed. Jessie ended up receiving 20 times the prescribed dose for a total of 100mg of the concentrated solution. Within hours his organs began to fail and he was placed on a ventilator.
Jessie spent 16 days in ICU, was moved to intermediate care for another four days, then to HealthSouth for intensive therapy. He has recently started speaking again.
The words of Jessie’s mother really say it all about this horrific situation. Medication errors are some of the most common medical mistakes. Click here for more information.
Our thoughts are with the family in this difficult time.
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