The Wrong Medicine: Quaid on Medical Mistakes

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The Wrong Medicine: Quaid on Medical Mistakes

March 26, 2008

CBS News. April 12, 2010.

This news video features an interview with Dennis and Kimberly Quaid discussing the dangers of medical errors in the context of a near fatal heparin overdose of their twin infants at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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