From Actor to Activist, Dennis Quaid Speaks Candidly About This New Job: Saving Lives
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WASHINGTON, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly three years after the near deaths of his newborn twins, actor and activist Dennis Quaid opens up in the September/October issue of AARP The Magazine about the worst day of his life. During what should have been a routine treatment for staph infections, his twins were accidentally overdosed with the blood thinner heparin at Cedars- Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. An international news frenzy followed, and Dennis Quaid and his wife were left outraged and in shock. "They were bleeding out of every place where they'd been poked and prodded," Quaid tells AARP The Magazine. The incident has since spurred Quaid to take action in the hopes of preventing medical accidents from happening to others. Says Quaid, "We didn't want to sue the hospital because we need really good hospitals...Cedars spent millions--on electronic record keeping, bedside bar coding, computerized physician-order entry systems--to improve patient safety. I have to commend them for that." Read what Quaid has to say about his new career as an activist, being a parent, and what he believes ultimately saved his children's lives:See the full content of this document
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From Actor to Activist, Dennis Quaid Speaks Candidly About This New Job: Saving Lives
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