When Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins almost died from a massive blood-thinner overdose last year, it must have been horrific.
And you can’t put a price on emotional trauma like that – not knowing whether your own children are going to live or di… what’s that? You can put a price on emotional trauma like that? And that price is $750,000? Sweet!
Dennis Quaid’s family has reached a settlement of $750,000 against the hospital where his children almost died. And they were just tiny children – imagine how much we’d get if we almost died in a nightmarish medication mix up! To the hospital! It’s label-swapping time!
Dennis Quaid isn’t the box office draw he once was. Time was he could get any film made, no matter how obviously ridiculous it sounded – a movie about a tiny man flying a rocket through Martin Short‘s arse, a confusingly-accented detective movie, a version of Jaws that’s in 3D where the shark’s jaw gets exploded off at the end – but those were the good old days.
You know what Dennis Quaid has been reduced to starring in now? Vantage Point. And that wasn’t even a film – that was just 10 minutes of Forest Whitaker looking confused repeated for what seemed like an eternity. The poor man has to really graft to make a wage now, so he must be thrilled to high heaven about the cheque for $750,000 because his newborn babies almost died agonising deaths because of a staff blunder, right? Right? Anyone? No?
You may remember that last year Dennis Quaid’s baby twins were lucky to escape with their lives after inadvertantly being injected with 1,000 times the recommended dose of an anti-coagulant. And the incident changed Dennis Quaid for the better – though grateful that his children eventually made a full recovery, he also realised that the overdose was completely preventable and took it up with the drug company responsible.
And the hospital responsible too, apparently, because its just given him $750,000 as a settlement. People reports:
Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly have reached a settlement of $750,000 against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the accidental overdose of their newborn twins in 2007. “The settlement is the result of extensive negotiations between the parties and their respective legal representatives, and is intended to avoid the time, expense and uncertainty of litigation,” say papers filed in L.A. Superior Court on Monday.
Dennis Quaid hasn’t yet said what he’s going to do with the settlement yet – there’s a chance he could use it to found an organisation to lobby for clearer labelling on medication boxes, or maybe he’ll put it into a trust fund that’ll give his children the lifestyle that Smart People can’t. Or maybe he’ll just spend it on publicly slagging off Meg Ryan as viciously as he can some more. Honestly, we’d be fine with any of them.
Julian Mentat says
See, if it wasn’t for the damned Metric System, they would only have gotten TWELVE times the correct dose.
Stuart Heritage says
I know, 1,000 times a lot, isn’t it? What does your blood even look like when it’s 1,000 times thinner than usual? My theory is that it turns into a gas. Which would be awesome. But DEADLY.
Stuart Heritage says
Hey, look, a Gravatar. How did I do that?