Quaid Returns to Negligent Hospital for Oprah

07 March 2009

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Dennis Quaid has made an emotional return to the Los Angeles hospital where his baby twins almost died after a blunder by medics.

The star and his wife Kimberley were awarded $750,000 (£493,420) in damages in December (08), after staff at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center mistakenly gave their newborns Thomas and Zoe a near-fatal amount of blood thinning drug Heparin - leaving them fighting for their lives.

The siblings have since recovered and are in good health.

Being here brings back a lot of memories, not all of them goodDennis Quaid

California state regulators also fined the hospital for the failure of its staff to follow their own procedures.

Quaid paid a visit to Cedars-Sinai in February (09) as part of a special for the Oprah Winfrey show - to determine whether the medical facility has put any steps in place to ensure a similar mistake could not happen again.

He tells the cameras, "Being here brings back a lot of memories, not all of them good".

The episode is set to air in the U.S on Tuesday (10Mar09).

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