In February, a Jefferson Parish jury awarded a New Orleans woman $1 million, finding she suffered a stroke because a Walgreens pharmacy gave her anti-psychotic pills instead of medicine she needed to control her high blood pressure.
On June 10, 2006, the victim’s son went to the Walgreens pharmacy drive-thru window to pick up his mother’s Toprol prescription; instead, the pharmacy gave her a man’s Zyprexa, used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
After taking one pill, the woman testified that she began feeling “a weakness” on her left side. The New Orleans woman went to the Meadowcrest Hospital emergency room in Terrytown, but she was sent home with instructions to rest. The next day, when she still was not feeling well, she went to see her doctor at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, thinking she was having a heart attack. Doctors confirmed that she had suffered a stroke after taking the incorrect prescription.
The now 59-year-old’s attorneys estimated her lifetime costs for care would be $1.8 million to $3.2 million for her “physical pain, suffering and mental anguish.”
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