'Rat poison' pills mix-up; MEDICINE.A CHEMIST accidentally gave a woman a powerful drug used by heart patients instead of the morning after pill. Emma Hadenham, 22, took one of the blood-thinning tablets - which contain rat poison rat poison n → mort-aux-rats f inv rat poison n → Rattengift nt rat poison n → Warfarin - before realising the mistake. She checked the box and spotted she had been given Marevan rather than the Marvelon she was prescribed. She said yesterday: "It could have been a fatal error." Zaffer Mukhtar, owner of Unicare Pharmacy in Gosport Gosport (gŏs`pôrt), city (1991 pop. 69,664) and district, Hampshire, S England. The city is a major port and shares its harbor with Portsmouth. There are ship- and yacht-building facilities and various light industries. , Hants, apologised. He said: "It should not have happened." |
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