Losartan without potassium
I had an older lady call and tell me she got the wrong medication so I pulled up her profile and looked at her losartan and explained she got the same one as she normally did. She then explained to me that this was losartan potassium and she is supposed to get just losartan. Typically she gets an amber vial, but someone took multiple of the small losartan 50 mg bottles and put them in a large amber vial (which I hate soooo much).
She tells me that the previous label says losartan and the current label says losartan, but the bottle says losartan potassium so there’s a mistake. I tried to explain that just losartan does not exist, that’s just the full name of the medication and she yells at me that I’m wrong. Conversation went on for about 5 minutes and it was going no where, at this point it was 7:02 pm and I hung up knowing she couldn’t call back.
Now I can’t look at losartan without thinking about it. I’ll annoy my coworkers by saying “do we have some potassium without this losartan in it?”