Medical Mistakes in Hospitals

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Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday night to recount the experience when a hospital's mistake resulted in their newborn twins receiving a life-threatening overdose of the drug Heparin.

Now, four months later, their twins are thankfully doing fine and the Quaids are focused on drawing attention to what is one of the leading causes of death in America - preventable human, medical error.

"These mistakes that occurred to us are not unique. And they're not unique even to Cedars. They happen in every hospital, in every state in this country. And 100,000 people, that I've come to find out, there's 100,000 people a year are killed every year in hospitals by a medical mistakes," he said.

Have you or anyone you know ever had to deal with an error made by a medical professional? 

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