It's been 16 months since Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly were faced with a parent's worst nightmare. Their newborn twins had each been given an accidental overdose, about 1,000 times the normal dosage, of the blood thinner Heparin by the staff of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and the survival of the babies was in question.
Three months ago the couple reached a settlement with Cedars-Sinai and yesterday they aired a video of their return to the hospital, this time with a crew from Oprah Winfrey's show, in which they were given a tour of steps taken to ensure the mistake is not repeated.
Said Quaid about the now healthy twins Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, "I just remember thinking that … this did happen for a reason. These two little kids, 12 days old, they're gonna change the world in some way, and I think that reason is to raise awareness, and to get something done about computerized record keeping and bar coding in hospitals."
Here is a sample from the video which aired earlier this week:
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