Medication mistake fatal for Fla. Woman

Medication errors continue to be a problem in the United States, with simple human error often producing grave consequences. A 77-year-old Florida woman went into a Walgreens drugstore five days before Christmas in 2009 with a prescription for potassium but was instead given a slow-release morphine by the pharmacist. Within five days she became very ill and died 16 days after she had started