In my dispensary audit reports, I call them LASA drugs—Look-Alike, Sound-Alike. It absolutely can cause dangerous errors, especially when labels are crowded and lighting in the store-room is poor. But the bigger mistake is blaming only the names; the real cause is the *shngain*, the deep fatigue in a nurse’s eyes during a double shift. I know, because I see them moving in the dim corridor at 3 AM, when two small white boxes can blur into one.
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