After several years of expensive test-tube treatment, called in vitro fertilization (IVF), American Timika Thomas from Las Vegas finally became pregnant in 2019.
She had previously undergone a complicated ectopic pregnancy, which resulted in her having to have her fallopian tubes removed. Thomas could no longer conceive naturally.
An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy in which the fertilized egg attaches and develops outside the uterus, write Major medical encyclopedias.
The joy was therefore great when the IVF treatment finally resulted in two fertilized eggs.
Fatal error
In an interview with the local television station 8 News NowThomas says that she was told by the doctor to take fertility medicine, to prepare the body for a long pregnancy.
But when she picked up the prescription at CVS Pharmacy, the pharmacists managed to give Thomas the abortion-inducing drug Misoprostol by mistake.
You can die after half an hour
According to Thomas, she had taken two doses, as prescribed by the doctor, when she noticed that something was seriously wrong.
Although she had become used to severe cramps through the test tube treatment, this pain was something completely different, she explains.
– It was extremely painful, she says to the television station, reproduced by The New York Post.
– Killed the baby
She therefore looked up the drug name on the package, and was mildly shocked when she started reading about the pills she had taken.
– The first thing I read is that it is used as an abortion pill. They killed my baby – actually both my babies – because I had two embryos.
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Thomas believes that the serious mistake could have been avoided if the pharmacist had asked her some questions when she took out the medicine.
– If they had asked if I had taken Misoprostol before, or asked me if I knew about the drug, I would have answered no, says Thomas.
Fine and suspended license
In September of this year, she filed a complaint with the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy, the state’s answer to the Swedish Medicines Agency, followed by several testimonies, writes the Australian news website News.
They also state that the two pharmacists who were behind the counter when the gross error was committed had their licenses temporarily suspended. They were also fined.
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CVS Pharmacy was also fined $10,000 – about NOK 110,000 at today’s exchange rates.
In a statement, the pharmacy chain apologizes:
– We have apologized to the customer for the prescription incident that occurred in 2019 and have cooperated with the Nevada Board of Pharmacy in this matter, says CVS Pharmacy.
– Human error
Furthermore, they say that “mistakes with prescriptions occur very rarely, but if they do occur, continuous work must be done to improve quality and patient safety”.
– Our customers and patients are our first priority, and we have comprehensive guidelines and procedures in place to secure prescription drugs.
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The pharmacists who dispatched Thomas are said to have both apologized and stated that it was a human error.
For Timika Thomas, the regrets are of little value, even four years after the incident.
– All I got was an apology. It will never be good enough, she says.
2023-10-15 09:41:47
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