Preventing Medication Error

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The Role of a Pharmacist is often underestimated to only being a pill dispenser or drug interaction expert. Yet there is so much more to the Role of a Pharmacist. Pharmacists are advocates for patient’s safety, health and efficacy. Their job is to ensure that people live more comfortable, easy, and well managed lives by making sure their medications are accurate and in the patient’s best health interest. Preventing medication error is one of the essential keys to saving lives and being a Pharmacist Medication errors are often classified into different types of categories to assist with medication reporting and determining the root cause of an error to take steps toward future error prevention. There are several drugs that look are sound the