With the personal medication card, you have ready access to the name and strength of your medications and why they are prescribed.
      Many patients arrive at the emergency room or physician office not knowing the names of their medications. One physician may be treating a heart condition and another physician orders the same medication under another trade name to treat the same condition. Since the two medications have different names, both medications taken together can be life threatening. If both medications were filled at the same pharmacy, the duplication may have been detected.

Many patients visit multiple pharmacies as well as multiple physicians
Medications taken incorrectly can result in a serious (and costly) condition.

Complications have also resulted from patients taking the wrong medication.

  That "little white tablet" that Mrs. Jones was taking for diarrhea was actually her heart tablet. (could be a fatal mistake)