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Pharmacist’s double-dose dispensing error: HDC

Liane Topham-Kindley
Sinemet
A pharmacist says he interpreted a GP’s prescription wrongly, causing him to dispense the incorrect strength of Sinemet to an older patient last year
A GP discovered his patient had been wrongly dispensed double-dose medication by a pharmacist after the man complained to him about a number of side e