Editing question

[Catlady (Rita Prince]

I'd like to change the subject line to 'Medication Error', but that would destroy the threading.

Kemper wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/40358>:

<< No, because a medication error is not the responsibility of the whole staff. It's the responsibility of the person dispensing the med. >>

All I know is from the Main Stream Media, but it seems to me that person prescribing the medication has some responsibility not to prescribe 1000 times the normal dose just by accident and not to prescribe a medication that he knows the patient is allergic to.

And the pharmacist or pharmacy technician has some responsibility to question a prescription for 1000 times the normal dose or for a medication to which he knows the patient is allergic, and generally to fill the prescription correctly (don't put two patient's pills in each other's pill bottles). 

And the person who puts the medication into the patient or hands the medication to a patient and stands guard while the patient takes it has some responsibility not to hand the patient a cup of Drano instead of a cup of what the pharmacy sent. 

Aren't all of those medication errors?

(I acknowledge Brian's more knowledgeable reply in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/40364>)