Video Transcript
If you suspect that a pharmacy gave you the wrong medication or dosage, the first thing you should do is not take it. After not taking it, call your healthcare provider and ask whoever prescribed it. Ask them if you think your healthcare provider was incorrect about the information; then you can, of course, get a second opinion from another healthcare provider. If you’re still at the pharmacy, of course, I would suggest that you talk to the pharmacist. Say, “I’m not sure this is the right thing.” Pharmacists are humans; they make mistakes, right? Physicians, too, make mistakes. The best advice I can give you is don’t take it until you talk to a healthcare provider to confirm that indeed it was not a mistake or perhaps it was, and then let them fix it.
