Re: NPR story on medicine labeling

[Abby Klemmer <aklemmer -at- factset -dot- com>]

Sorry, I didn't really express my reaction to this story very clearly. I 
agree with Dick that Target and the researcher who questioned the existing 
labels have the right idea. 

In fact, Target's really done a great job improving the usability of 
dispensing liquid medications -- I really like the gadget that they put in 
the mouth of the bottle that lets you withdraw a precise amount of liquid 
using the matching oral syringe that they provide. Until I made this happy 
discovery, getting exact amounts of liquid medications into an oral 
syringe was a sticky-fingered comedy of errors, especially when the bottle 
was less than half-full.

Abby Klemmer


Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote on 12/07/2006 09:36:44 AM:

> What I heard was a complete disconnect from reality. It seems to me that 

> if there are five questions we should ask every time a med is 
> prescribed, then maybe it behooves the doctor and pharmacist to provide 
> that information in the first place instead of waiting for the minority 
> of informed patients to ask. And it also seems to me that blaming 
> patients for medication errors gets it backwards. Target has the right 
> idea, as does the guy who looked at warning labels; the other doctors 
> and pharmacy academics quoted have it wrong because they see patients as 

> their subordinates, not their customers.

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