Pharmacist ordered to apologise after methadone mix-up

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Pharmacist ordered to apologise after methadone mix-up

Jonathan
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The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacist failed to take the necessary steps to identify a patient before dispensing methadone PHOTO CREDIT: Flickr user SalFalko (Creative Commons)
A pharmacist has been ordered to write a letter of apology after he mistakenly dispensed the wrong dose of methadone to a patient. In a Health and