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9 months ago 14th Mar 16:01
Quaids Scare Up Hospital Mistake Statistics For News Special....
Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly are set to scare U.S. TV viewers on Sunday night (16Mar08) with terrifying statistics about America's medical mistakes.
In a taped 60 Minutes news special, the couple has spoken out about their twin babies' November (07) health battle when they were accidentally given an overdose of blood-thinning drug Heparin by staff at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
But as well as talking about their own scare - which almost cost babies Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace their lives - Quaid and his wife have opened up about the medical mishaps that lead to senseless deaths.
In the interview, Quaid insists medical mistakes are more common than people think: "They happen in every hospital... I've come to find out, there's 100,000 people a year killed... in hospitals by a medical mistakes.
"It's bigger than Aids. It's bigger than breast cancer. It's bigger than automobile accidents and yet, no one seems to be really aware of the problem.
"We all have this inherent thing that we trust doctors and nurses, that they know what they're doing".
Quaid adds the mistake that almost cost his twins Boone and Zoe their lives "occurred right under our noses", adding, "the nurse didn't bother to look at the dosage on the bottle. It was avoidable, completely avoidable".
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