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How pharmacists can help solve medication errors

  • Written by B. Joseph Guglielmo, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco
Patients are often overwhelmed by medications, especially when they leave the hospital. EM Karuna/shutterstock.com

In today’s health care system, no one person – maybe not even you – knows exactly what drugs you’re taking. What’s more, no one health care provider knows how you, the patient, take your medications and at...

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