medical question? need help?

Assistant not assistent.

An MA does not prescribe medication. Ever.

You need to narrow down what you are trying to ask. What KIND of errors? Drug interaction? Filling errors? Wrong medication? Wrong dosage?

Even in the case of wrong medication/dosing, you would need to narrow that down. Did the doctor prescribe the wrong medication for the diagnosis (like giving Amoxicillin for knee pain cause by a strain), did he accidentally write Durasal instead of Durezol or Oxycontin instead of Oxycodone, did he accidentally write 1000mcg of Fentora instead of 100mcg, did he get proper dosing instructions wrong (like giving to small or too large a dose to treat a problem)? Did he not check the H&P drug list and accidentally prescribed Penicillin to a Pen allergic patient? Did he not check the patients drug list and prescribed Lithium to a Migraine sufferer who uses Imitrix?

In many of these cases, the new EMR systems and national records can help with errors. If you can link a patients medical histories and see that a Neurologist prescribed Imitrix, then a warning will come up if you try to print an Rx for Lithium. Computer systems can send prescriptions directly to pharmacies, eliminating handwriting errors. Ideally, a computer system could even notify you of a major dosage change - like if the patient regularly gets the 100mcg Fentora and you enter an extra '0'. Some systems ask for a diagnosis before you can enter the Rx, and a system that checks standard protocol for the drug against the diagnosis would be fantastic.