Toddler Given Chemo Overdose At Military Hospital
5:45 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Written by
Bruce Leshan
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Virginia News
FT. BELVOIR, VA (WUSA) -- Researchers estimate medical mistakes kill 200-thousand Americans every year. Errors with medication injure an estimate 1.5 million of us.
One is the 2-year-old daughter of Iraq War vet allegedly hit with a massive overdose of chemotherapy at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
"I have 'kemia." says Kendall Heun, who is now three.
Other than a tube in her chest, Kendall shows little sign of all she's been through. A year ago, doctors diagnosed her with leukemia and recommended a three week course of the potent chemotherapy drug Doxorubicin.
"I was holding her, and I didn't stop it," says Melanie Heun, her voice breaking.
In one short 15 minute dose, medical workers at Walter Reed allegedly pumped Kendall with more Doxorubicin than she was supposed to get over the entire three weeks.
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