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Originally Posted by J epworth kendal
Presciption drug errors are one of the most common filed malpractice suits, so the individual who filled the prescription and the entity that they work for (Shoppers) would probably both be held liable. Funny you mentioned those drugs, I just switched form Elavil to Nortriptyline at the start of 2013 for migraine prevention, felt absolutely no difference between the two drugs, Nortriptyline was just a little less expensive so made more sense for me. Weird for the pharmacist to mess it up too, as Elavil is a small blue pill and Nortriptyline is a capsule.
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Sounds like the error would not have been from putting the wrong pill in the wrong bottle, but from transcription from the original ie. The pharmacist likely read the prescription as Amitriptyline instead of Nortriptyline