Quaid Twins' Overdose Double What Hospital Claimed

A month or so ago, when Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, announced that they were suing the manufacturer of the blood thinner that was incorrectly administered to their infant twins, they hadn't decided on an action toward the hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The hospital had apologized, and the Quaids were waiting to see what it would do to correct the problem.

It's looking like that conciliatory attitude toward the medical center may be cancelled, though. According to a CNN report, an investigation by the California Department of Public Health revealed that the twins actually got 2,000 times the appropriate dose of heparin, not 1,000 times, as the hospital had admitted.

As if 1,000 times isn't bad enough.

The CNN report quotes a statement from the Quaids saying, "We were told by upper Cedars-Sinai administration that our children had received only one 10,000 unit dose of heparin when in fact they had received two 10,000 unit doses over an 8-hour period that we now know of. The hospital's lack of candor has left us with the uneasy feeling that we may never know the whole story."

And me with the uneasy feeling that this kind of thing goes on every day, and parents never know what happened.