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Originally posted by _Highlander_
reply to post by backinblack
Killing what? All drugs can kill a human being in the right dosage. Methotrexate can and is used for a variety of things like Cancer, Autoimmune diseases, Behçet's disease etc... not just medical abortions. It kills certain cells involved with these diseases process,
To answer your question more directly, there are no drugs in a phamacy that have a sole purpose to kill a human being, though all drug in a pharmacy are capable of it.
As the medication takes effect, Methotrexate interferes with folic acid and stops fetal cell duplication, and disrupts pregnancy at the stage of implantation in the uterine wall.
Originally posted by _Highlander_
reply to post by backinblack
Methotrexate, the drug that the pharamacist gave the girl by mistake, kills cells.
As the medication takes effect, Methotrexate interferes with folic acid and stops fetal cell duplication, and disrupts pregnancy at the stage of implantation in the uterine wall.
Originally posted by _Highlander_
reply to post by backinblack
It has several uses, and was not originally designed for abortions. Surley you can understand this?
Do you know anything about medicine at all?
Originally posted by _Highlander_
reply to post by Malzypants
Where did you get that from?
There is nothing at all in the article to suggest the pharamacist was playing Dr Death.
Originally posted by _Highlander_
reply to post by backinblack
lol...I give up, you win, the earth is flat and I'm a little teacup.
*toot
Originally posted by BrokenCircles
To me, it seems as if you are blowing this off as if it is similar to a waitress adding sugar to the coffee that you ordered 'black."
This is a bit more than that. This is not a simple little error. This is a paid employee of a pharmacy. He/she has ONE thing to do. That would be to supply people with the medicines that they were prescribed. This is not a light situation. This is very serious for this girl and her baby. This one little tiny mistake, as you put it, may cause her child to die, or to be born with some sort of defects. I expect and hope that this person faces heavy penalties for this.
I may be being a bit paranoid, but could he (the pharmacist) have done this on purpose? He could have looked at her and thought "I don't approve of teenage mothers"...
Vicky
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by Vicky32
I may be being a bit paranoid, but could he (the pharmacist) have done this on purpose? He could have looked at her and thought "I don't approve of teenage mothers"...
Vicky
I would hope not..The girl was 19, not really that young..
Also the drugs had a very similar name..
I think the Pharmicist merely read the hand written script wrong..
My only point is that it should be law, for safety, that the Pharmicist tells the customer what they are getting.
Especially with drugs such as this..
You're right... Here, in New Zealand pharmacists always do that... especially in hospitals (my son's a nurse), but also in shops. Also, doctors print prescriptions by their computers, at least mine does.
I hope the poor girl and her baby are lucky!
Vicky