three jane smiths on a common hospital floor. before every procedure in the hospital make sure the staff checks your entire name, your date of birth, and the bar code on your wrist band. at number 22, pharmacy faux pas. mareena silva is six weeks pregnant. she picks up a prescription for antibiotics at the pharmacy. she takes the medicine. and then sees the label is wrong. i came back and i looked at the bottle, and it wasn t my name. the pharmacy has given mareena a prescription meant for another woman who has the same last name and a similar first name. the medicine isn t an antibiotic. it s actually methotrexate, a drug that has the potential to terminate pregnancies. you never, ever want to give a drug like that to a pregnant patient. this is my first child. so it s really difficult to deal
she was holding it. saying my head s hurting. my head s hurting. the mccrackens rush morgan to the emergency room. we couldn t get to the hospital fast enough. i carried her in. she was too lethargic to walk. a doctor says don t worry. i m sure it s late, she s tired, she probably has a touch of the flu. a gut feeling tells these parents the doctor has morgan s diagnosis wrong. this wasn t our morgan. she s had the flu before. this wasn t how she acted. they ask for a ct scan of her head, but the doctor won t listen. what is the consequence of a doctor not listening to you? they re failing to hear the first manifestation of a life-threatening illness, and they re failing to register and therefore look on your body for the first clues of that and begin to order the right tests. after hours of begging the doctor finally does listen and orders the ct scan. here s what he missed. a blood clot inside morgan s skull.
morgan mccracken gets socked in the head with a baseball. mom and dad ice the bump down. the 7-year-old seems fine. until two nights later, when she cries out for help. mom, mom, my head. it s hurting. she was holding it. saying my head s hurting. my head s hurting. the mccrackens rush morgan to the emergency room. we couldn t get to the hospital fast enough. i carried her in. she was too lethargic to walk. a doctor says don t worry. i m sure it s late, she s tired, she probably has a touch of the flu. a gut feeling tells these parents the doctor has morgan s diagnosis wrong. this wasn t our morgan. she s had the flu before. this wasn t how she acted. they ask for a ct scan of her head, but the doctor won t listen. what is the consequence of a doctor not listening to you? they re failing to hear the first manifestation of a life-threatening illness, and they re failing to register and therefore look on your body for
hospital floor. before every procedure in the hospital make sure the staff checks your entire name, your date of birth, and the bar code on your wrist band. at number 22, pharmacy faux pas. mareena silva is six weeks pregnant. she picks up a prescription for antibiotics at the pharmacy. she takes the medicine. and then sees the label is wrong. i came back and i looked at the bottle, and it wasn t my name. the pharmacy has given mareena a prescription meant for another woman who has the same last name and a similar first name. the medicine isn t an antibiotic. it s actually methotrexate, a drug that has the potential to terminate pregnancies. you never, ever want to give a drug like that to a pregnant patient. this is my first child. so it s really difficult to deal with.
before every procedure in the hospital make sure the staff checks your entire name, your date of birth, and the bar code on your wrist band. at number 22, pharmacy faux pas. marina silva is six weeks pregnant. she picks up a prescription for antibiotics at the pharmacy. she takes the medicine. and then sees the label is wrong. i came back and i looked at the bottle, and it wasn t my name. the pharmacy has given mareena a prescription meant for another woman who has the same last name and a similar first name. the medicine isn t an antibiotic. it s actually methotrexate, a drug that has the potential to terminate pregnancies. you never, ever want to give a drug like that to a pregnant patient. this is my first child. so it s really difficult to deal with. maybe we could have deformities. there s a lot that goes with it.