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Do medication errors happen

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

yes, sometimes but its not likely to happen but it could like the time my aunt had to take a 500 mg pill for my aunts bi polar and she got a diffrent kind of pill instead and she died now and she was only 18 years old.

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