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Pharmacy says it goofed in making drugs for horses
Associated Press ^ | April 23, 2009

Posted on 04/23/2009 9:33:09 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Florida pharmacy has told The Associated Press it incorrectly prepared a medication for 21 polo horses that died over the weekend while preparing to play in a championship match.

Jennifer Beckett of Franck's Pharmacy in Ocala, Fla., told the AP in a statement the business conducted in internal investigation that found "the strength of an ingredient in the medication was incorrect.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: pharmacy
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1 posted on 04/23/2009 9:33:09 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh man is that ever going to cost them some serious green.


2 posted on 04/23/2009 9:34:17 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Crack dealers take note, this may be your next big seller.


3 posted on 04/23/2009 9:34:51 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart.........2012--can't come soon enough.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
21 horses all died? That's definitely not a coincidence.

Better call in Obama. This is big stuff.

4 posted on 04/23/2009 9:34:54 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Will probably be enough money from this screw up to float Venezuala for an entire day.


5 posted on 04/23/2009 9:35:13 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I hope they have a MASSIVE insurance policy.


6 posted on 04/23/2009 9:35:20 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Cha-ching. Would suck to be their inssurance company now.

Each one of those horses was $100,000 minimum per head.


7 posted on 04/23/2009 9:35:24 AM PDT by FreedomFerret
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Unbelievable.
8 posted on 04/23/2009 9:35:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oopsie!....my bad!


9 posted on 04/23/2009 9:38:01 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m not too good with the metric system either. Dang decimal points....


10 posted on 04/23/2009 9:38:57 AM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Idiots.


11 posted on 04/23/2009 9:39:02 AM PDT by phoenix07
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Unbelievable.

That is was oopsie? Oh, yeah....

12 posted on 04/23/2009 9:39:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Maybe a mcg/mg mistake. Microgram vs. Milligram. That is a 1,000 dosage difference if that happened.

Speaking of pharmacy mistakes. About 15 years ago, RiteAid was giving my wife a birth control prescription for someone else when she was supposed to be getting a pre-natal vitamin subscription filled. Could have proved fatal to the unborn. To the state of CT that followed up, no big deal, nothing was done.

Needless to say we never went into any riteaid again.


13 posted on 04/23/2009 9:40:20 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT 2006; now living north of Tampa Bay)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How sad. I think I saw that the horses were insured, though not for all that much. So I guess the owner will be compensated. Still, must be awful for those who worked with them and took care of them.

If the “goof” caused the death of the animals I’m sure the pharmacy will be paying dearly. Wonder if it was part of a pattern of carelessness, or unfamiliarity with the doses used for veterinary purposes.


14 posted on 04/23/2009 9:41:08 AM PDT by YankeeGirl
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To: Free ThinkerNY

All the horses were on the Lechuza Polo team. Caracas, Venezuela.


15 posted on 04/23/2009 9:41:56 AM PDT by FreedomFerret
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Cha-ching. Would suck to be their insurance company now.

Probably insured by AIG. ;>)

16 posted on 04/23/2009 9:42:03 AM PDT by SC DOC
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To: George from New England
WalMart tried to pass of a menopause drug that started with an "A" as my father's Aricept. Hurried pharmacists need to chill out a bit.

I ended up getting "sorry" calls all the way from Bentonville, Arkansas on that one.

17 posted on 04/23/2009 9:44:27 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Impeach now!)
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That’s it. I am never going back to that pharmacy.


18 posted on 04/23/2009 9:45:25 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They botched the level of medication enough to KILL not one horse, but 21 horses? This isn’t a random goof, this was a goof of alarming proportions.

Even if they were mixing this medication in one huge bucket, the level went from benefitial, to harmful, to lethal. How, other than complete incompetence and recklessness does one muster a mistake of this magnitude?

I grew up on a farm, we administered medicine to animals on a routine basis. Ask any farmer, the routine is far more common and expensive than they would like.

You buy 100cc quantity of a medicine. You know that this $$$ medicine will provide 20 doses (at 5 cc per dose). If you take enough for 10 doses, and you use more than half the bottle - something is wrong. You can SEE that the bottle is less than half full, so either you didn’t inventory your product (incompetence) or you are not keeping track of how you are using this (recklessness).

If a farmer does this, wouldn’t you expect a Pharmacy, ran by people with degrees in counting pills be able to manage this?


19 posted on 04/23/2009 9:46:12 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I own Quarter Horses......you would be amazed at how much these horses will be worth.....especially since they died at someone elses hand. If they were worth $10,000 apiece before they died, now they could be worth $100,000 apiece


20 posted on 04/23/2009 9:46:12 AM PDT by RC2 (FREEDOM)
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