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60 Minutes - The Wrong Medicine (March 16, 2008) | DVD-R

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Run Time:

12 minutes

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CBS

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Release Date:

April 01, 2008

Sales Rank:

125,738th

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Airdate: 03/16/08 As many as 100,000 people die each year from medical errors, and the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly were nearly part of that statistic. When only days old, the babies were accidentally given the wrong dose of the blood thinner Heparin, and they nearly bled to death. Steve Kroft talks with the couple about their ordeal and about the issue of preventable medical mistakes.

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