Quaid's Foundation Will Expose Hospital Errors
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly Buffington, are establishing a new foundation to fight errors made in hospitals.
During an interview with 60 Minutes, the actor recounted the incident at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center that almost killed his newborn twins, and said he has spent the past four months trying to make sense of it all.
However, it is doubtful that any parent can make sense that Quaid's twins, Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone, were given a 10,000 unit adult dose of Heparin instead of a 10 unit baby dose - not once, but twice!
It turns out that other hospitals have made the same mistake multiple times. Three of six newborn babies at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis died after they were all given an overdose of the blood-thinning drug, Heparin, in 2006.
Quaid and his wife are suing the drug manufacturer, Baxter, and establishing a foundation to fight the problem of hospital errors, Quaid told 60 Minutes. He also added that he, "hoped that Cedars Sinai would also take a lead in fighting hospital errors."
