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While the doctor argued it was an honest mistake due to odd positioning, Carvey felt otherwise and sued the surgeon and hospital for $7.5 million. The case was later settled. For more offbeat news ...
Actor Dennis Quaid, the narrator of the film, shares the story of how his 12-day-old twins both almost died from multiple overdoses of heparin, a blood thinning medication. This led Quaid to become a patient safety advocate, author of medical papers, [ 2 ] and teaming up with the producers of Chasing Zero to create the documentary.
The hospital "failed to ensure that patients had been protected from medication errors," they found, declaring its faulty practices an "immediate jeopardy" situation that put patients at risk of ...
Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe is an autobiographical novel written by Sorrel King published by Grove Atlantic in 2009. [10] Her novel was named one of the Best Health Books of 2009 by the Wall Street Journal, [10] and nominated for a "Books for a Better life" Award from the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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At the hospital, Judie had a stroke, but the medical caretakers treat her for a seizure. Judie is diagnosed with permanent brain damage, is unable to speak and has a catheter strapped onto her stomach. [11] Then the film transitions again to Makary talking about how the medical field is not learning from its mistakes.
The medical move meant he was hit with a $109,586 bill for getting care at an out-of-network hospital. “They’re claiming I voluntarily went to an out-of-network hospital, which is not true ...
With these errors, not only is there a likelihood of a prescription being wrong, but there is a $3.5 billion price tag that goes with that, covering the amount that people pay each year for litigation costs and extra days that patients need to stay in hospital beds because of mistakes from the hospital.