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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Walter Reed pharmacy sent home wrong medication

Walter Reed clinic gives Christiane Wiggins heart medicine instead of vitamin
Brandie Piper
KSDK
May 8, 2013

KING GEORGE, VA (WUSA) - U.S. Senator from Virginia is demanding answers after another medical mix-up at Walter Reed Military Medical Center.

Mark Warner wants to know why a Virginia woman was sent home with a powerful and potentially deadly heart drug, instead of the vitamin shots she was supposed to get.

Christiane Wiggins was shaken when her son opened the package of medicine dispensed from a Walter Reed clinic at Dahlgren Navy Base.

"My brain went, I was sick to my stomach," she said.

"It was labeled B-12 on the bag, labeled as B-12 on the package insert, on the printed label on the bottle," said her son, Chris Wiggins.
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