OKLAHOMA pharmacist, Dr James Sutterfield, has had his license suspended "indefinitely" after allegedly giving nine patients insulin shots instead of the flu vaccine at a Bartlesville medical centre last Nov.
The vaccine mix-up resulted in each of the patients ending up in hospital.
The Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy ordered Sutterfield to pay a $23,400 fine, in addition to attending law seminars and continuing education classes for the next two years.
"This is the first infraction that he's come upon," said Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy, Executive Director, Marty Hendrick.
"Bad decisions and sometimes accidents do happen... we have to take into account all those things that revolve around it."
Sutterfield also allegedly discarded some of the vaccine in attempt to cover up his mistake, which contributed to the Board's decision to ban him from dispensing medicine.
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