A co-worker was caring for 2 patients who were being treated with the same drug (cytoxin) but one of the doses was twice the amount of the other. She started both infusions within minutes of each other. About halfway through the infusions she realized she had mixed up the doses, so that patient A was receiving twice the ordered dosage, while patient B was getting about half the dose. She immediately told the physician what happened, and his resolution of the mistake was to stop the infusion on patient A and infuse the remaining amount into patient B. No, I am not kidding. I'm not sure which stunned me more, his idiocy or my co-worker who didn't bat an eye and actually started to do what he told her to do. WTF????? I went ballistic and told the doc no way, no how, was this going to happen under my watch. After 5 minutes of screaming at each other he finally walked away in a huff, mumbling that I could do whatever I wanted. Just as well, because I was ready to call in the calvary and I think he knew it.
How would you have resolved this?