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Listed below are two free resources to that you can download to reduce the risk of medical mistakes and provide your personal information to help save your life!

Prescription Drug Alert

• Medical mistakes are the eighth largest killer in the United States.*
• The 4th largest killer in the United States.
  Adverse reactions to prescription drugs.*
  • One in every four people has a medical condition that should be known.*

    Ways to avoid being one of the 100,000 people hospitalized each year because of adverse effects of prescription drugs.

  Approxmiately 100,000 people die each year from prescription drugs. This is due to allergic reactions...drug interactions...physician prescription errors...or patient mistakes.

  FACTS:
  

  • Prescription drugs kill more people each year than automobile and airplane accidents combined.
  • One million people annually-one in four over a lifetime-will be hospitalized due to adverse effect of a prescription drug.
  • A Food and Drug Administration survey of consumers shows 70% of physicians don't tell patients about adverse effects of drugs they prescribe.

   

  HOW TO REDUCE YOUR RISK

  • KEEP A MEDICAL REGISTER. This list should include the brand and chemical name of drugs that you are taking...why you are taking them..the doses and times of day you are taking them...and any special instructions you received about them. Show this list to specialist and new doctors and pharmacist every time you get a new prescription.

  • Get your Free Personalized On-line Emergency Medical I.D Card for your wallet or purse, here! It could save your life.

  • Get your Adobe Reader Here to download and view following form

    Get your Free Prescription Record Form to list your prescription medications.

  • BUILD PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH YOUR PRIMARY PHYSICIANS AND YOUR PHARMACIST. Ask questions... voice issues of concern...insist on answers. Also, take advantage of enormous knowledge pharmacist have about the adverse effects of drugs.

  • ASK YOUR PHYSICIAN TO REVIEW YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS PERIODICALLY to determine if some of the drugs you are taking are still necessary or appropriate for you.

  • He also recommends asking your pharmacist for a package insert. Checking for boxed warnings... review the contraindications section...drug interactions, etc. Also check the dosage and adminstration section.

    *Thomas J. Moore,
     senior fellow at George Washington 
    University's Center for Health Policy Research, 
    Washington, DC.
    
    He is author of Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden 
     Dangers in your Medicine Cabnet
    
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     Simon & Schuster/$5.39
    

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