Science Fair Proposal

1. Pharmacy

2. Pharmacy Malpractice

QUOTE: "Perhaps pharmacist errors are the most chilling types of med mal cases, because when we get a prescription filled that the doctor gave us, we do not question the pharmacist. We grab the bag, go home, take the pills and wait to get better, hopefully," said Christopher Mellino. Mellino is a Cleveland medical malpractice lawyer of the Mellino Law Firm LLC, in Ohio. 

CITE: "Pharmacist Malpractice can be more Dangerous than Physician Malpractice." Law Firm Newswire. Law Firm Newswire, 25 Feb. 2011. Web. 20 Sept. 2012. <http://www.lawfirmnewswire.com/2011/02/pharmacist-malpractice-can-be-more-dangerous-than-physician-malpractice/>.

3. If the economic status of the state is lower than the average, than the number of malpractice reports is higher.

4. I plan to use the data from the National Practitioner Data Bank to find out how many malpractice reports of pharmacists. They have statistical data gathered about how many reports are followed as well as their adverse action reports. I also plan to look up the states' GDP of 1990-2012. Through this data, I will graph their growth and see if the GDP has some sort of correlation with the states GDP. I am thinking of also including other information like the percentage of unemployment or poverty rate.

5. Pharmacology