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I almost died this way. When I was about 5 years old, I had pneumonia. I went to a doctor, they misplaced a decimal point in my weight, and prescribed me a 10
by jwalton 7y ago
I almost died this way. When I was about 5 years old, I had pneumonia. I went to a doctor, they misplaced a decimal point in my weight, and prescribed me a 10x over dose. The nurse didn't bother to double check it, and just blindly gave me the shot. Then the second nurse, who somehow didn't know the first nurse had given me the shot, gave me a second shot, so I was 20x over dosed.
They called my parents a couple of hours later when they figured it out and told them to take me to a hospital immediately. I ended up in the hospital for a week.