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- April 27, 2010. My husband just went in for a arterial bypass, he was supposed to get 1,000 cc of Heparin, he too was given 10,000 cc. The Anesthesiologist administered 10 times the amount he was supposed to be given.
He is at this time still in hospital. Still not sure of possibility of stroke.
The Dr. preforming the surgery notified me of what had happened and was not happy about it.
Should we seek legal advise? - Reply to this comment
- Almost three years ago, I published a book on Medical Error/Medical Terror, entitled "Jihad and American Medicine." In it, I predicted the Dennis Quaid twins event and, frankly, a lot more...the same vulnerabilities that make the health care system vulnerable to external 'deliberate disasters' are also the very ones that constitute weaknesses which leave us prone to medical errors. Easy connection to make, but it seems you have to be rich and famous to get attention for life threatening health care issues. In the last three years, I wonder how many of the roughly 100,000 medical error preventable deaths/year could have been prevented if the country had Anderson Cooper and 60 Minutes on the story then?
(see www.adamdorin.com).
In the past three years, the field of health system safety/security, from both a medical error and terrorism stand point, has grown substantially. Any simple Google search will reveal that ex-military, homeland security, and other individuals have contributed to the burgeoning industry of healthcare safety/security (from internal and external threats). It really IS worth some media attention now--and there's so much more to the story than Dennis Quaid. It's sad that you're still missing about 98 percent of the issues on this topic. - Reply to this comment
- Too much trust is put into healthcare "proffesionals". I entrusted my three month old son with three emt. One was supposed to be a RN. He was diagnosed with rsv on monday and i took him to his regular doctor on the following wednesday to follow up and he got transported to the emergency department at the hospital.Were they put a tube down his throat so he didnt have to keep putting his body thru so much stress to breathe. Well they did not have the means necessary to facilitate him there so they wanted to transfer him to a better hospital. So my husband and i followed the ambulance to the hospital and 6 mins away from the hospital they turned on their sirens and ran thru traffic my husband and i rushed to the hospital and went in the door were we thought they were taking him. So we get there and they have us waiting down in registration.Someone comes and gets us and takes us to the emergency department. We get there and a nurse meets us at the door and tells us that our son took a turn for the worse. They said my son was not breathing for 6 min in the ambulance and 8 mins in the ER.And they tell me that he could suffer brain damage due to lack of oxygen. So on top of the rsv that occurs naturally my son now has brain damage due to somone not paying enough attention. And they keep saying accidents happen.My husband and i are still in the hospital with my son waiting...
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- DR.MARK C. ADRIAN ,AT SCRIPPS MEM. HOSP LA JOLLA FOUND THAT MY MOTHER HAD A BLADDER INFECTION. HE SAID HE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO KEEP HER OVERNIGHT "MERELY FOR OBSERVATION", WHICH WAS DONE. A NURSE ON 7W, NICHOLE L. BECK, (MY MOTHER POINTED HER OUT TO ME), STUFFED SEVERAL PILLS DOWN HER THROAT, IN RAPID SUCCESSION, AND LEFT HER ALONE RESULTING IN MY MOTHER CHOKING HORRIBLY FOR MANY MANY HOURS. AFTER THAT SHE COULD NO LONGER EAT OR DRINK AND THEREFORE REQUIRED A SOMACH TUBE. SHE LASTED ONLY A SHORT TIME ON THIS
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- Thank you for your excellent reporting on the Quaid
twins and hospital mistakes, that cost so many lives.
It is a real problem that is like the elephant no one
acknowleges and no one is accoutable for.
The medical community in my small town murdered my
son because he had a disability and they withheld
treatment that could have saved his life, and
chose not to. They are getting away with it because
I cannot find a lawyer who will take the case, first
they agree to take the case and then they say they
can''t and withdraw. Now the two years is up and they
got away with it. Rae a Reed 435 755 0915 I would like someone to do a story about how the most helpless people the disables are treated by the medical community.
in this country. - Reply to this comment
- No Hollywood special effects for us. We are, and will remain, human, not super heros. The fixes of Hollywood won''t change that Mr Quaid, but we can do something you can''t inspite of our short comings. Save lives.
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- "Quaid calls it a conspiracy of silence, where doctors protect nurses, nurses protect hospitals, insurance companies protect drug manufacturers."
This is one of the most arrogant comments I have ever heard from a notoriously arrogant lot of people...actors. Of course, this is why you, 60 minutes, gave him center stage in the first place and let him make such a statement. Need I remind you that we are the ones in the trenches every day, working under circumatances you don''t ''get'' unless you do it. In spite of our best efforts, we make mistakes... because every move, every hurried calculation and decision can become one as in any other job, only ours can be fatal. We get that. We lose sleep over it. He gets to ''retake'' and ''remake'' his day at will. We are educated enough to know how easy it is to screw up. Yet, we are brave enough to get up and give it another day. Would he? To suggest we cover up for one another is disgusting to me. Shame on all of you. Walk in my shoes for the 15 years I have done it, work holiday''s weekends, days and nights then we''ll talk because only then will you be qualified to judge the likes of us. - Reply to this comment
- Can you put me in touch with Mr. Quaid? I would like to tell him about our unique personal health record. Its focus is to reduce medical mistakes and thereby save lives, improve the quality of medical care and reduce care costs. Thank you.
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- My mother passed away at Ronald Reagan Medical center last month. From the time she was taken to their ER until she died, it was a nightmare including one of the more senior lab technicians commenting that she had been given twice the amount of a drug that she should have for her weight and size. She never woke up after that. She was injured iserting the catheter so there was blood in her urine. She was given a neck brace that was too big and caused her great anguish and discomfort although she did not need the brace. We had to raise the roof to get any information. No consistency with attending "physicians" -- all "practicing" doctors, rarely a doctor with experience since our primary physician was a Cedars. Registered letter sent to UCLA Medical Center CEO and head of Patient Services but no response.
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- I feel for the Quiads, and hope that their children experience a long happy life and all that it has to offer. I also feel for myself and my family. My husband died because of a medical error. It could have been prevented by BARCODE. It is not ridiculous to sue the drug companies. They package medicine in look a like bottles and bags. They need to mandate BARCODING. It''s easy to sue the hospital and doctors. But let''s go to the top and demand a better system. We are at the mercy of drug companies. Due to their greed my grandchildren lost their grandfather, my children lost a father, and I lost the love of my life. I was given a charm at age 19 with the saying, "Grow Old With Me". I didn''t get the chance. It was stolen from me.
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