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let's bring in to tell what happened to your husband i want to bring a malpractice lawyer
representing seven families suing the pharmaceutical company stephanie
grana
stephanie, without getting too scientific basically
what was being injected to richard phyllis' late husband was
medicine
laced with bacteria
that's correct donny
and how could something
you believe you going to a hospital
how can that possibly happen
unfortunately it just did and the surgeon
at mary washington
dr armitage was not aware of that cardioplegia is a substance that is
used every day across the country and bypass surgeries
and it is typically made at outside pharmacies and
he knew nothing
about it at the time and it's used
to prefuse the heart, it actually paralyzes the heart
and stops the heart from from beating
but the heart is actually bathing in the substance so unfortunately in
phyllis' case when her husband had the surgery, the solution was
filled with something called gram-negative rods
for a bacteria that should not be there stephanie, the doctor
realized he had lost four patients and said, you know what? there is something very
wrong here this is an example of a doctor
bravely coming forward instead for cover things up so you know what
we need to do an investigation here and basically found the lab that was making
this stuff was not
up to snuff as far as regulations and because what people don't understand, these
kind of cocktails, these medicines
at hospitals and office facilities are mixed all the time and so much of what
goes into it is just not the pure medication
that's correct
that's correct and doctor armitage is to be commended because he
identified that he had patients that were dying or getting sick
he
on his own investigation recognized a cause
which he believed to be was contaminated cardioplegia at and then he did what was
unusual which is he stopped
the surgeries he actually closed the cardiac unit downtown area washington
hospital and he called for help the cult and the local virginia
cdc
and and um... he actually they in turn called in the f_d_a_
and they did some testing
at that hospital and they determined
on and their findings that contaminated car you play joe was the cause of these
instances will step in a tow yard he representing our seven families in this
and i want it
phyllis before i come back to you in just one of the restate from a washer
hospital
view the surgical procedure preparation did not find any abnormal practices are
evidence of ten asian rather contaminated carpal egypt solution
produced by outside farmers who is the term two most likely source cluster
patient complications observed at mary washington spill
those mulholland dummy god be with you uh... and social sorry really shishir
storing steffi graf
they can be with us working again