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Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Medical Harm

April 30, 2010 in Healthcare | Comments (0)

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A few years ago, Dennis Quaid nearly lost his newborn twins to a massive heparin overdose. A nurse had inadvertently, repeatedly, admininstered adult heparin doses to both infants — they nearly bled to death internally. Now The Quaid Foundation is an outlet for Quaid’s passionate patient safety advocacy, and it has produced a documentary profiling families affected by preventable medical errors to educate the public.

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