Monday, December 17, 2007

Even the famous can't escape

What's going in Medicine? What is going to drive change in our hospitals/emergency rooms?

Require reporting of medical errors DesMoinesRegister.com The Des Moines Register: "Actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins were reportedly the victims of a medical error. While at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California, the infants were given 1,000 times the intended dosage of heparin - a blood thinner used to keep IV catheters from clotting. When blood is too thin, patients are at risk for life-threatening bleeding and hemorrhages."

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