Posted on 10/20/2023 2:48:56 PM PDT by Morgana
LAS VEGAS (LifeSiteNews) – Two CVS pharmacists had their licenses suspended for accidentally giving a customer abortion drugs instead of in vitro fertilization (IVF) medication, but the woman who lost two preborn children as a result says their apologies “will never be good enough.”
Las Vegas CBS affiliate 8 News Now reported that in 2019 mother of four Timika Thomas decided to try for a fifth child and turned to IVF due to a medical history that included two ectopic pregnancies and tubal ligation.
Eventually, her doctor prescribed a vaginal suppository meant to stimulate production of pregnancy hormones, which was to be filled at a North Las Vegas CVS location. But upon taking two doses, Thomas experienced “severe” and “extreme” cramping beyond what she was expecting. So she took a closer look at the prescription bottle and was horrified to learn she had been given abortion drugs.
“They just killed my baby,” she said. “Both my babies, because I transferred two embryos.”
8 News Now says it obtained documents detailing how one technician entered the wrong medication name into Thomas’ prescription, a pharmacist failed to notice the error, and a second pharmacist neglected to review the details of the drug with Thomas when she picked it up.
“It [the error] would have been caught because then they would have had to have the medicine in their hand,” she told 8 News Now. “And they would have said, ‘Oh, this is Misoprostol or Cytotek, have you taken this before?’ And I would have said ‘no.’”
She filed a complaint, and last month the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy fined the two pharmacists at fault and suspended their licenses for a year, after which they may be reinstated. CVS, which announced its intentions to begin dispensing abortion pills earlier this year, was also fined $10,000.
“We’ve apologized to our patient for the prescription incident that occurred in 2019 and have cooperated with the Nevada Board of Pharmacy in this matter,” the company said in a statement. “The health and well-being of our patients is our number one priority and we have comprehensive policies and procedures in place to support prescription safety. Prescription errors are very rare, but if one does occur, we take steps to learn from it in order to continuously improve quality and patient safety.”
“All I got was a sorry,” Thomas lamented. “It will never be good enough.”
“People make mistakes,” but “that mistake took something from me,” she added, per The Messenger. “There’s not enough that I can say. There’s not enough therapy. There’s not enough medication that’ll take the thoughts away. That will take the pain away.”
Students for Life of America’s Caroline Wharton noted that “many outlets reporting this story have been forced to tell the truth: the Thomas’ preborn children — at the embryo state of development — were indeed human babies that were valued, unique, and special.”
“Are the pharmacists ESL?”
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Don chu no bout Reconquista?
Go back to lily-white Minnesota, err, umm, never mind. HusseinOsama fundamentally transformed all that.
-fJRoberts-
Prescription labels have a description of the pill. "It's a blue pentagon shape tablet with L2 on one side."
How many IVF embryos were culled to give the mom her now-deceased twins? Or are there more still waiting on ice?
About half of the embryos created for IVF are thrown away during or after the process. This adds up to about 1.7 million per year in America. That’s almost 3 times the number of abortions.
I don’t think so. I have talked to a few retail pharmacists...200 a day is slow. I am talking about big retail pharmacy chains. Some of the smaller ones...a hundred a day is ok...
I do know that most of the pharmacists,when I ask for a consult ask if I know what the drug is, they tell how to take it...mention one or two things to watch for..then ask me if I have questions... that’s it...many pharmacies have a electronic pad which allows you to decline counseling..
.there is much more going on....like billing and collections, federal and state mandated narcotic control, shipments,, new laws, new medical guidelines, federal and state workplace laws, staffing etc...easy to see how one teensy error goes through with understaffed crew
So how many embryos are typically destroyed in the course of successful IVF?
Yeah, right
Including not making sure you know what you are taking.
Reading the bottle would go a long way to preventing incidences like tese.
I can see a lot of people too bashful to ask for an explanation, thus holding up the line for all the people waiting in line behind them.
No, the print is too dang small.
As working in a mid-busy pharmacy...we typically fill around 500 prescriptions a day...sometimes less, a lot of times way more...with short staff because those who sit in those upper offices just look at their bonus and maybe gas for their yacht cut labor hours...not caring about us getting grief from customers asking why their prescription isn’t ready...
Yeah, right
They are so casual about dispensing murder pills.
The victim should sue for wrongful death.
When I need a drug. The pharmacy prints the name on the bottle and also a description like yellow tablet or something like that. Everybody needs to pay attention.....
Proof they nred to strike and unionize.
How about stop selling abortifacients but in back allies like other drugs that ruin lives and our community.
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