This is where treatment has been prescribed incorrectly that may have damaging side effects to the patient yet has been taken unnecessarily. In a mild form, this may be in the form of drugs that have caused the patient some irritation to where a very strong medicine has been prescribed for entirely the wrong disease leaving the patient in a much worse position than before.
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