Comments on: Dennis Quaid gets $750k settlement from hospital for twins’ overdose

By: michelle

michelle — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:33:22 +0000

Hats off to Dennis and his wife for trying to improve our world. It is famous people that can change things so much quicker. The packaging needs to be changed and should have been changed after the first mistake. It is a shame that people are looking at this with dollars and cents; they are certainly not doing it for that reason, they are doing it to prove a valuable point. They should have received 750 million dollars for a mistake like that. I pray you plant a seed for all FDA approved medication. How dare the FDA approve that type of packaging. Yet they don’t approve drugs that work and are inepensive because of the connections they have with pharmaceutical companies. Whoever wrote about how because of the Quaid’s the prices will go up, that is bull, medication continues to go up because of the pharmaceutical companies having full control of the FDA. Why is it that in the United States most medications cost double, triple,etc. of what the exact same medication made by the same pharmaceutical company cost in Mexico or other countries? What a shame! I am blessed that I live on a border city and all I have to do is cross a bridge to get my medication for 1/4 of the price. Hats off to the Quaids, may changes be made….

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By: Andrew Distant

Andrew Distant — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:04:02 +0000

Sad story. Over hospitals there should be a strict control. That the such has never repeated.

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By: DLR in Canada

DLR in Canada — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:17:35 +0000

i am shocked. i mean those babies almost died, plus other babies died. i don’t want to play devil’s advocate, but what if the quaid babies had died? would the quaids be so willing to accept just 750K? two entities are clearly at fault. first are the hospital people that didn’t double-check the drug packages. second, above all, is the drug company that for some idiotic reason deemed fit to have pretty much the same packaging for two different dosages. i mean why not have one blue and the other orange, than even a bleary-eyed over-worked nurse or doctor would be aware of which drug was which. i may not know the whole details, but the fact is the quaid babies almost died because a bunch of people made a big boo-boo. what about long-term effects? sure they are said to be okay now, but who knows what happened in their bodies and in the cells and blood that could be like a ticking time bomb.

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By: orion70

orion70 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:29:46 +0000

I can imagine this being terrifying for any parent, rich or poor.

I hope they, in turn, donate the money to a children’s hospital or something.

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By: Dirty Martini

Dirty Martini — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:11:17 +0000

Newsflash to the world: Mistakes happen in healthcare everyday. This mistake was made by well meaning, likely overworked and harried nurses and pharmacists. He’s right to sue. He’s right to settle for under a million.

Use this as a learning experience. That’s what the airlines do. They don’t punish mistakes….they celebrate them, they use them as learning experience, and they encourage and incentivize reporting on them.

And by the way: this wasnt the drug industry’s fault. Suing the drug manufacturer is just plain gilding the lily. The mistake was made at the hospital, in the NICU, by nurses and pharmacists.

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By: HotMess

HotMess — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:59:23 +0000

The drug companies are regulated by the FDA. Why not sue the FDA, Dennis Quaid?

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By: HotMess

HotMess — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:54:32 +0000

With more and more people losing their jobs people are going to wish that they had affordable healthcare. People will find this out once things get worse and we go into a depression.

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By: lanette

lanette — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:58:38 +0000

i wish he won more…

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By: HotMess

HotMess — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:43:24 +0000

You ever wonder why your doctor orders a battery of test that may not be needed? It is because they are afraid of being sued. Who do you think pays for all those test? You do. I guess people like the idea of people winning the lottery over suits like these. Dennis does not have a care in the world when it comes to healthcare he can afford the best of the best medical care. But what about the working poor?

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By: HotMess

HotMess — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:39:14 +0000

There are already millions of people who go without health insurance already. What these lawsuits do is make it more difficult for people to be able to afford insurance think about. Hospital gets sued. The hospital just passes this on to the patients, through higher hospital bills. In turn the insurance raises premiums to offset the cost of the higher cost of hospital stays. So this one judgement just screwed people over. The hospital doesn’t care because we are the hospital, we make the hospital work through our admissions, and er visits ect, ect, ect. Somebody google physician shortage in the US and see what some of the reasons are. It is only going to get worse as the baby boomers age and there will be no one around to take care of them. Think about. Tort reform is needed.

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