Understanding drug interactions is something your pharmacist, like other medical professionals, owes as part of their a duty of care to their patients. Ensuring that a drug is properly filled and dispensed is only part of their duties. Typically, pharmacists are expected to consult with prescribing physicians and counsel patients. One sometimes overlooked duty...

Motor vehicle crashes can range from simple fender benders to devastating multi-vehicle fatality collisions. Likewise, car accident injuries range from minor to fatal. In fact, we tend to pay more attention to fatal injuries, but non-fatal car accident injuries can be life-changing as well. Let’s look at five of the worst non-fatal car accident...

Truck accidents and stories of how they occurred often appear in the news. One reason is that they are often so devastating, resulting in damage to multiple vehicles. The collisions somehow seem even worse than accidents between automobiles. Even worse, there are often serious injuries and fatalities. We will look at the reasons behind...

Long-term care facilities are where we often move loved ones so they will get the specialized care they need. But does that care do more harm than good sometimes? The answer can be “Yes,” when treatments are incorrect. For example, prescription errors can occur in any medical setting causing injuries, including long-term care facilities...

Automobiles share the road with trucks, bicycles, and motorcycles. Sometimes it’s easy to overlook motorcyclists or to misinterpret the way they are driving. And that’s probably one reason that motorcycle accidents are so deadly. All drivers share responsibility for staying safe. This article looks at five causes of devastating motorcycle accidents and how we...