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My late husband was frequently caught in the middle on this issue. He was a delivery driver for a local drugstore & often was the "sounding board" for such errors. It is SO important for patients to know what they are supposed to be taking. If the patient isn't able to keep track of such then a caregiver who can should always double check. The pharmacists are only human but their error COULD mean a matter of life or death. In a message dated 6/22/1999 1:42:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > 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 >