Lou v. Smith

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

Paul C. Lou, a pharmacist with twelve years experience, received a prescription calling for the drug Reglan, at a dosage of 1 milligram, four times daily. Because Lou had only 10 milligram tablets of the drug, and because he assumed the prescription was for an adult and that the doctor had made an error, he wrote in a zero after the “ 1 ” on the prescription slip so that it prescribed 10 milligrams, four times a day. It was, in fact, a prescription for Charlotte Smith’s four month old daughter, Sarah. When Mrs. Smith returned home that evening and gave Sarah the…