Alabama Fatal Prescription Error Lawyers
Experienced Birmingham, Alabama, Lawyers Handling Medication Errors
Medication errors injure and kill thousands of people every year. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), fatal medication errors accounted for approximately 10% of all reported medication errors, making prescription errors a serious problem. At Bohanan & Associates P.C., in Birmingham, Alabama, our medication error attorneys have the skill, experience, and resources to effectively represent people whose injuries are the result of medication errors.
Contact us today online or by telephone at 888-343-5114 to speak with an experienced Birmingham prescription drug errors attorney.
Our Birmingham, Alabama attorney Ralph Bohanan Jr. is a former certified medical professional with significant training handling powerful drugs including anesthetics, opiates, sedatives, tranquilizers, narcotics, muscle relaxers, and hypnotics. We understand how to read medical shorthand, how to identify common drug errors, and can readily identify situations where medication errors resulted in serious patient outcomes. According to the American Hospital Association (AHA), dangerous prescription drug errors commonly result from a variety of causes:
- Failure to obtain complete patient information, including information about allergies, other medications, previous diagnoses, and lab results
- Failure to have updated information about drug warnings
- Miscommunication of drug orders between doctors and nurses or between doctors and pharmacists
- Poor handwriting and inappropriate abbreviations
- Confusion between drugs with similar names
- Failure to appropriately label a drug as it is prepared and repackaged into smaller units
We are committed to holding doctors, nurses, and pharmacists responsible for medication errors. We offer a free initial consultation and handle all our personal injury cases on a contingency basis. While our attorney Ralph Bohanan Jr. is a former certified medical professional, we often turn to medical experts to help put our clients in a position to maximize the compensation they receive for their injuries.
Contact Our Birmingham, Alabama, Medication Error Lawyers
If you or a family member has been injured as a result of a prescription drug error, please contact Bohanan & Associates. Our Birmingham medication error attorneys can be reached by phone at 205-545-8309, by e-mail, or by filling out the intake form on our contact page.
