In light of his newborn twins receiving a potentially fatal overdose of Heparin (a blood thinner), Dennis Quaid and his wife have decided to sue the manufacturers of the medicine. Apparently, the labels are too similar to tell the doses apart.
Call me crazy, but even with the 10cc bottle slightly blurred, I'd be able to tell the difference between the two bottles. Unless the manufacturer put the wrong dose in the bottle (put a 10,000cc dose in a 10cc bottle), this mistake could've been easily prevented.
Is anyone else wondering why Dennis Quaid isn't suing the hell out of the hospital for hiring nurses that are too stupid to read?
I know there's a nursing shortage and that nurses are overworked as it is. However, when it comes to life-saving medicine, you don't blindly hook up the IV. You check the lable and double check it if it's wrong. But of course, it's never really anyone's fault, is it?
