Dennis Quaid: "There Was Blood Everywhere"

16. sick of people who get up on their soap boxes and start cryin out for changes after somethin happens to them. they don't read the paper? theyve never heard of this situation before? no, just didnt give a crap till it was them. idiots....

Posted at 3:39AM on Mar 17th 2008 by hater

17. Gee 5 and 7 wouuld you be saying that if it was your own child? I think not, I am pretty sure you would be screaming at the top of your lungs. Losers

Posted at 4:49AM on Mar 17th 2008 by Get a Clue

18. This was not the first tme this mistake has happened with this specific medicine. Babies were lost in Indiana a year and half ago. Repeated requests have been made to change the packaging which resembles another medicine and those requests have been ignored. Yes, reading is required but hospitals that work nurses 12 hour shifts should not be surprised such mistakes are made.

Posted at 5:28AM on Mar 17th 2008 by Dee

19. Having worked in hospitals, people have no idea the mistakes that are made. All the time. I think the Quaids should sue the hospital for not telling them their babies were litterally dying, and made the mistake, more the makers of the blood thin. Sue the hospital, and it will benifit others more. Don't think the shock has really hit them yet. They should be raged.

Posted at 6:59AM on Mar 17th 2008 by wake-up

20. It is time Big Pharma and money hungry for profit hospitals are held accountable for their mistakes and greed. The mistake was made at the pharmacy level. Big Pharma couldn't be bothered to make the packaging completely different for each drug. So a human error was made due to packaging. Who is at fault? It happens every year to 100,000 people. People die from drug mistakes. So the answer is, do NOT let anybody, doctor or nurse, administer you a drug without your consent and without looking at the packaging from which the medicine came to make sure it is exactly what you should be taking. DO NOT TRUST A DOCTOR OR NURSE BECAUSE OF THEIR DEGREE OF LEARNING. THEY ARE ONLY HUMAN.

Posted at 7:28AM on Mar 17th 2008 by reality

21. What is wrong with Dennis's voice ?

Posted at 7:37AM on Mar 17th 2008 by Throat

22. As he said......"mistakes". What idiots. They should be thrilled their children are 100% fine. Doctors make mistakes. Nurses make mistakes. They are human and all humans make mistakes. I think doctors and nurses should go on strike for a period of 1 hour globally and prove to everyone just how important they are. Then lets see how many people they "kill" (using this complete fools own words). The answer would be no one. They can't "kill" if they don't try to help. I need more coffee for this one. I hate morons like actors who barely have an education and think they can even try to act smarter than they are. And stand on o podium and try to influences others who are stupid enough to listen and think they know what they are talking about. There is a big difference between "mistakes" and homicide. It will be a sad day when doctors cannot practice anymore because they are held to highly accountable for the possibility of not being god. So there. Now where is that coffee?

Posted at 9:29AM on Mar 17th 2008 by mrswentz

23. You would think with all of their money, he could get a good hair piece. What an awful rug, and dying it like he's some
teen age school boy. You're getting older Dennis, we all are, part of life. Make you look sillier trying to cover it up. Even with all of the technology and money, they still can't make a rug, where people can't tell, just something about them that
the human eye can tell that it's not real.

Posted at 10:10AM on Mar 17th 2008 by Mike Kockhertz

24. As a mother whose child was injured at birth & will now be in long term care for mod-severe cerebral palsy, I just can't stand when people write about the "poor doctors & nurses" who were doing their best. And one thing that gripes me so badly I could spit is "mistakes happen, we're only human." That's BULL!!! These people are trained professionals!!! TRAINED!! People have no idea of the repercussions that happen when a mistake is made. Be it an infant, child, adult, or senior. It is unacceptable!! There are cover up attempts to minimize damage, the ongoing "we don't know what happened," that kinda thing. All I can say is THANK goodness those children survived & I can only hope that they go after anyone they can that can be held responsible in any way!! That way these type of things can be prevented in the future. Sometimes it's not all about the money, either. People need to understand that.

Posted at 10:24AM on Mar 17th 2008 by mother of a child irreversibly injured by "medical professionals"

25. I was very happy to hear his babies are fine now and everyone is healthy. I have a son who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 15 months and with the first couple visits to his pediatrician they told me had simply a stomach virus. He was completely lethargic, breathing shallow and rapidly and had lost 3-4 pounds in a matter of a few days. The pediatricians office completely missed the diagnosis and brushed it off as a stomach virus. Had I waited the 3-4 days they told me to wait until his "virus" ran its course, my son may not be here today. I insisted there was something else going on and finally the diagnosis was made and he was in the hospital for nearly a week. In the hospital they were trying to gradually bring his bllod sugar back to normal (from 550). On an infant they generally use diluted insulin because the doses sometimes are very small and hard to measure in a syringe. Anyway, in the hospital my husband and I were receiving training on how to draw up insulin in a syring, give injections, etc, the nurse brought in "diluted: insulin to give my son a unit to lower his bllod sugar from its current level. this would have been 10 units of diluted insulin, instead she handed me a vial to draw up and I started to draw it up and noticed it was full strength insulin, I pointed this out to her and she was comletely embarassed. Ten units of full strength insulin would have been 10 times the amount he needed and it would have bottomed out his blood sugar, he would have had a seizure, it would have taken a great and very quick response to correct, if they could at all. This just goes to show you that mistakes get made ALL the time in hospitals. There are usually too few nurses to cover too many patients, and they rotate so frequently that one nurse may not know what the previous has done. It is very scary. The thing is, that in all of this craziness I never once considered suing anyone. I am so, so happy that my son is here with me now and healthy, that is ALL that matters.

Posted at 10:41AM on Mar 17th 2008 by Jennifer

26. Thank goodness that your child is healthy.

But, for the people who do decide to sue because their children AREN'T healthy, due to some type of error or mistake, they shouldn't be thought of in bad terms. Just my opinion.

Posted at 10:48AM on Mar 17th 2008 by just a lil comment

27. What is going on with the Nicole Kidman news??? China daily actually posted the news of the bodyguard attack on a pap chasing him around 6am est. - none of the so called celebrity news sites have any story what so ever. Afraid of drawing to much attention to your pathetic and dangerous practices in getting these photos, clips, and story's???

Posted at 11:45AM on Mar 17th 2008 by ChangeTMZ

28. Point taken #26. You are correct, as a parent you always feel responsible and helpless when something happens to your child. If making the person responsible pay for their wrongdoing is what helps, more power to them.

Posted at 11:48AM on Mar 17th 2008 by Jennifer

29. #24

Sorry you have a child with disabilities. But you are still an idiot. Humans make mistakes even when they give up 12 years of their life (and pay huge amounts to do so - college, medical school and residencies are certainly not free and a resident makes just about minimium wage). It is complete fools like yourself that try to drive the medical profession into the ground. Let's see where you go when you need to bring your child with special needs to the ER for some reason and the front desk tells you that there are no doctor's today.....they all quit because they cannot play god anymore. Or that they cannot affort to feed thier own families because their malpractice insurance it so high that they need to get another job. And thier malpractice insurance is so high because even trained professionals are human and make mistakes. I bet you got yourself a nice little settlement. It's a shame it happens, but nothing in life is exempt from human nature.

Posted at 11:52AM on Mar 17th 2008 by mrswentz

30. #24

One more thing......if you find it unacceptable then I challenge you to go and do a better job. Go and pay for the training and do the time. Oh...not smart enough.....that sounds about right.

Posted at 11:56AM on Mar 17th 2008 by mrswentz