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The Real Injustice and Lost Chances for Restoration

In the Sept/Oct issue of the industry publication, "Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare , the founder and president of the Pennsylvania based Institute for Safe Medication Practices wrote an astonishingly biased editorial on the prosecution of a pharmacist in the wake of the preventable death of two year old Emily Jerry. Read her mother's testimony to the Ohio State Pharmacy Board here. Mr. Cohen acknowledges speaking to a variety of stakeholders in the case and reading transcripts and records as research for his article. He acknowledges her mother's (Kelly Jerry) impactful testimony. He never mentions reaching out to her, her attorneys, or her nonprofit healthcare safety organization (offers education to providers) to gather information for full coverage of the topic he states, is "an injustice of throwing healthcare professionals who make mistakes - even deadly mistakes - into the criminal arena when their errors were unintentional, caused by system failures...