How scary, I have never know a pharmacist who didn't check what was in the vial/bottle. Then again, I don't normally watch other pharmacists checking. But I am shocked that a pharmacist wouldn't. I guess this explains a couple of the bizarre incident reports I saw this past month, where the drug dispensed didn't look anything like the drug that should have been dispensed. I can understand when there are a couple of wrong pills mixed together with the right pills, when they both look alike, it would be very easy to miss this. But a whole bottle of clearly different looking pills? It never occurred to me that the pharmacist wouldn't have been checking at all.
To Maria1Oh, you truly are neglecting your professional duty. If you can't read the tablets, then you need to get better glasses, or a magnifying glass, or whatever it takes. As for liquids, I require the technicians to put the bottle I'm checking with the bottle they filled from. Yes, I suppose its possible they could fill the RX wrong, but then put maliciously put the right bottle with the RX, but I do not find this very likely. I hope you have never worked in a hospital, I shudder at the thought of your signing off on IV's without checking them, since you think they all look the same.
