Are L.A.’s Hospitals Safe?
Moderated by Charles Ornstein, Los Angeles Times Health Investigative Reporter Consider the errors reported in recent months at Los Angeles area hospitals: The newborn twins of an A-list actor received an overdose of heparin that could have caused serious damage or death. Three patients at one large medical center had surgery on the wrong body part in a 14-month span. And an emergency room patient at a public hospital left before his treatment was finished and was found dead in a parking lot across the street. All of these cases …
