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After I >got home I hopped on the web and did a search to find that Lanoxin is a >heart drug. Needless to say, this incident has terrified me! Luckily, >I caught the pharmacy's error and no harm was done. > >Has any one been through something like this? I will be calling her >doctors office and plan on stopping by the pharmacy after work tonight. >I do not want to see something like this happen to anyone else. I'm a special education parent advocate. One of the children I advocate for has a severe emotional problem that requires medication. After his mother noticed that he had developed a temperature and was sleeping a lot she called the psychiatric hospital from which he had recently been discharged. Turned out that one of his prescriptions was incorrectly filled by their pharmacist (wrong med - huge dose). The kid required ER services including an IV and EKG to ascertain whether he had sustained cardiac damage. Scary, no? ----- Mary Ann Ryan (CG Jamie 59/19)