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Article: Dennis Quaid threatens to sue Los Angeles hospital

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March 30, 2008
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New York, March 30 -- Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid has threatened to sue staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles if they don't introduce a bar-code system to prevent medical mishaps.

The actor's twin babies were last year mistakenly given a near-fatal overdose of blood thinner Heparin at the hospital. Quaid, who acted in "The Day After Tomorrow", insists the mishap could have been avoided if there was a better system of marking medicines, reports hollywood.com.

California regulators have already fined hospital bosses $25,000 after ...

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