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1. Crowson Law gives insights on Medical Malpractice – Medication Prescription
Errors
If a doctor prescribes the wrong medication to a patient and the patient ends up being
harmed as a result, the patient may be eligible to bring a medical malpractice
claim. However, medical malpractice claims are very complex from both a legal and
medical standpoint. This article will discuss proving medical negligence in cases
where a doctor prescribes the wrong medication to a patient.
It is important to realize that a doctor is only liable if he or she is the one who actually
made the mistake. Therefore, in instances when a mistake is made by someone else
such as a pharmacist or drug manufacturing company, the doctor is not liable. An
attorney from Crowson Law Group stated that, “while this is easy to point out, it can be
a pretty complex detail to prove; like any medical malpractice action, in order for the
lawsuits to be viable you have to prove that the doctor’s actions actually amounted to
medical negligence”.
In order to prove medical malpractice related to prescribing the wrong medication, it
means that the patient must prove that the doctor was negligent and will need to
establish the following:
 What the medical standard of care was under the circumstances
 How the doctor deviated from that standard, and
 How the patient was harmed as a result
It is important to realize that the first thing that needs to be established is the ‘medical
standard of care’. This is usually established by an expert witness with experience in the
same medical field as the doctor who wrongly prescribed the medication. The medical
standard of care is generally defined as “the type and level of care that a healthcare
professional with the same training and experience would provide under similar
circumstances in the same community”. Therefore, the medical standard of care is “the
yardstick against which to measure the propriety of the doctor’s decision to prescribe
the medication in question and his or her conduct in connection with that decision”.
Thereafter, it would be necessary to show precisely how the doctor failed to meet that
standard of care when treating you. Such proof will be provided usually by the testimony
of an expert witness. In this testimony, the witness will show what exactly your doctor
did or failed to do, that was not in line with the proper course of conduct under the
circumstances.

2. Once the above is proven, one must show that the wrongly prescribed medication
actually caused some kind of injury to the patient. This could be in the form of newly
caused health problems or worsened existing health problems. A Crowson Law
attorney stated that “with respect to an injury from wrongly prescribed medication, the
injury needs to be serious enough to warrant taking a patient’s time and going to the
expense of filing a lawsuit against the doctor”.
Some examples of where doctors sometimes make mistakes when prescribing
medication include the following:
 The wrong dosage
 Incorrect instructions for taking the medication
 The wrong duration for which to take the medication
 Medication which contains an ingredient(s) which the patient is allergic
 Medication that will harm the patient because of the patient’s other underlying
medical conditions
 Medication that is ineffective and causes the patient’s underlying or untreated
condition to worsen
 The doctor fails to relay the drug manufacturer’s warning of risks and side effects
to the patient necessary for informed consent
If you believe that you suffered harm from being prescribed the wrong medication, find
attorneys in Anchorage Alaska who handle medical malpractice matters.

3. About the company:
Crowson Law Group is a law firm of renowned professionals that focus on personal
injury matters. It was named in a Newsweek listing of the best personal injury law
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