A couple of fatal medication errors in California. “The California Department of Health Services determined that officials at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Santa Clara were “deficient” in their care of Josephine Frances Hart, a 12-year-old girl hospitalized with pneumonia who died the same day she received a double dose of the drug epinephrine . . .

. . . Earlier this week, the health department cited another hospital, Kaiser Permanente Santa Teresa Medical Center, for a similar infraction.

Chemotherapy patient Christopher Robin Wibeto, 21, died in August three days after a cancer-fighting drug called vincristine, which was intended for another patient, was injected into his spine.”

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