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The infants had twice received 1,000 times the correct dose...10,000-unit dose of heparin, used to treat illnesses in adults. Sheridan says, “I had this sense of hope that somebody of Dennis’s stature and celebrity, who’d witnessed the fear and horror I had, would speak up. And he did.”
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“Companies recall dog food!” exclaims Quaid.
“Why weren’t they recalled?”
The heparin given to the Quaid twins bore the old packaging. The Quaids folded their foundation into TMIT this year.
“We’re now coming together and demanding that something happen,” says Quaid.
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As part of the settlement, Cedars spent millions – on electronic record-keeping, bedside bar-coding, CPOE – to improve patient safety. Quaid is narrating a series of documentaries produced by Denham about medical harm, which TMIT is distributing free of charge to every hospital in the country.
The first: Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm
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“We’re not here to denigrate health care workers,” says Quaid. “They’ve dedicated their lives to treating human suffering – and they’re overworked.” “We don’t have bad people. We have bad systems,” says Denham. Quaid and Denham are calling on hospitals to invest in a set of 34 National Quality Forum Safe Practices for Better Healthcare.