Article: The Wrong Medicine

Steve Kroft
60 Minutes (CBS)
03-16-2008
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DENNIS QUAID: It was the scariest, most frightening day that I think either of us have ever been through.

STEVE KROFT, CBS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Dennis Quaid has starred in more than 50 films, but nothing prepared him or his wife, Kimberly, for the drama and near tragedy that unfolded last November at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, when their infant twins were given massive overdoses of a blood thinner that nearly killed them.

D. QUAID: It was ten units that our kids were supposed to get; they got 10,000. And what it did is, it basically turned their blood to the consistency of water, where they had a complete ...

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