A Pennsylvania family lost their mother to a prescription mistake in 2003 after being prescribed the wrong heart medication for someone in her condition. Sandra D. Koch was on dialysis at the time and was prescribed 80 mg of Sotalol. For someone on dialysis it was the wrong medication as well as four times the appropriate dosage. The family’s attorney said, “The drug is excreted from the body by the kidneys and if the kidneys don't work and you are only getting dialysis every third day, the drug can build up in the body and cause a fatal heart arrhythmia, which is what she had kill her six days after she started the drug.” Further citing, “There was overwhelming evidence that you don't use this drug in this particular patient when there are other alternatives that were available that would have done the same thing.” A Superior Court jury agreed and awarded $1.6 million to her husband and children.