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Kathy, This can and does happen unfortunately. You should notify her doctor the pharmacy and probably the pharmAcy board of your state. That was potentially a big error and could have cost your mother dearly. I had 4-6 pharmacy errors in recent years prior to by retirement- some of which were potentially dangerous and others inconvenient. It appeared to happen at the same branches of the same pharmacies more than once too- funny thing about that. Charlie Kathy Barras wrote: > Last night I was setting up my mothers pill box for the week and grabbed > for the new bottle of Zocor (cholesteral drug <sp?>) and noticed that > the pills were round and white as apposed to peach and triangular (sort > of). So I looked at the old Zocor pills and saw "ZOCOR" printed > directly on the pills. The new round white pills had "LANOXIN" printed > on each and the pharmacy label said Zocor 20mg on the bottle. 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. > > Kathy Barras cg mother (Florence 75/Sept 1997) > Fort Lauderdale, Florida -- ****************************************************************************************** Charles T. Meyer, M.D. Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin [log in to unmask] ******************************************************************************************