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Old 11-19-2014, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by dbussone View Post
Well let's see how about adverse drug reactions and medical errors
You still didn't give an example of how one would be confused with the other.

A medical error is exactly that, an error, and often doesn't involve drugs. If it does involve a drug, it's because the patient was given the wrong drug by error. I had a neighbor who was about in his 40s and died in the hospital when they mistakenly gave him the wrong drug.

Adverse drug reactions are those that are not because of an error. A doctor prescribed a drug for me a few decades ago that almost killed me.