They missed up and did this eye and then this eye. Hair loss . I had a perfect ring around many i head. And metal, deadly close to a magnet. Mistakes are happening every day in every hospital in the country is that were just not catching. Its the second or third leading cause of death in this country and for the most part, with were silent on it. What you can do to not become a victim. Im elizabeth cohen. Ill show you how to become an empowered patient. With the help of world renowned Patient Safety expert dr. Peter pronovost, dr. Otus brawley, dr. Abraham varageis and more. Stay tuned. This hour could save your life. At numb 25, baby security breach. The woman in this surveillance video, Jennifer Latham tells her family shes expecting a baby when really she isnt. So she decides to steal one. Take a look as she changes into nursing scrubs, enters a babys room, comes out with a bag under her arm. A baby is in that bag. The imposter nurse actually gets off the premises with the child, despite an alarm on the baby. The alarm went off as it was supposed to. The woman just managed to get out the door. The baby is gone, missing, for almost 2 1 2 hours. Until a Police Officer spots the getaway car and pulls the baby snatcher over. Thats a newborn you got back there. Listen as jennifer lies to the officer telling him the baby is hers. You gave birth . Today . No. Yesterday. Yesterday . This cop isnt buying any of it. Jennifer latham is arrested and the baby is returned safely back to mom and dad by ambulance. What kind of person would want to steal a baby . Most people who steal babies actually want that babies for hems themselves. And hospitals are a great place to get babies. Since 1983 be, 130 babies have been abducted from u. S. Health care facilities. Make sure your eyes or a real nurses eyes are on your baby at all times in the hospital. Because every so often, a baby snatcher is eyeing them, too. At number 24, fake dpok tors. I dont want to lie to you anymore, all right . Im not a doctor, i never went to medical school. Like amy adams character in catch me if you can tammy perteet thinks she married a physician. I would drop him off at the hospital. Until her husbands eric pleads guilty to impersonating one. I was told at the time he was arrested, he and a nurse were taking a patient from the emergency room into the intensive care unit. The hospital says he escapes notice by wearing scrubs and a real doctors i. D. Badge. Anyone who fakes being a medical doctor is fundment tally a con artist or a scammer. Incredible medical mistakes have been made by these fake physicians. This man, arthur copes also turns out not to be a doctor. He advertised extensively on websites saying that he could straighten out the most crooked of spines. Sarafina sees the ads. She thinks he can correct her skoal yost sis. She wears his brace for six months and her curves get worse. Extremely worse and im in extreme amount of pain. The people who will fall for these fake doctors usually are extremely vulnerable. It is that persona, ability to gain the patients trust, that respect, that white coat and that ability to smile and get that person to talk to them and trust them, that allows the fraud to continue. The federation of state medical board wliss hundreds of posters who have mas kwer raided as doctors in america. Ms. Mace. Unless its Leonardo Dicaprio examining you, go online and make sure your doctor is a licensed physician in your state. At number 23, treating the wrong patient. Carrie is bleeding three months into her pregnancy. Some she fears shes about to lose her unborn baby to a miscarriage. Shes waiting in a hospital room when a nurse comes in and ask if your name is carrie. Carrie says yes and follows the nurse to a c. T. Scan room. The nurse tells carrie a doctor wants a scan of her abdomen abdomen and gives her the scan even though shes three months pregnant. If youre radiated the abdom abdomen, the baby is going to get radiated. The hospital has confused carrie with another patient named a carrie. The scan in a pregnant woman will increase the risk that child will get leukemia. At that early stage of gestation, the fetus is also at risk of getting birth defects. Fortunately, carries son nathan is doing just fine. How do they confuse patients . It often happens with people who have similar names. So especially for common names. Jean smith. There may be two or three jane smiths on a common hospital floor. Before every procedure in the hospital, make sure the staff checks your entire name, your date of birth and the bar code on your wristband. At number 22, pharmacy faux poe pas. This woman is 26 weeks pregnant, she picks up medicine and sees the name is wrong. Came back and looked at the bottle and it wasnt my name. They gave her a prescription of another person. The medicine is a drug that has the potential to terminate pregnancies. You never, ever want to give a drug like that to a pregnant patient. This is my first child so its really difficult to deal with. My baby could have deformities. Theres a lot to go with it. Things get hectic behind the prescription counter. Phone is ringing, messages, patients coming in. Pharmacists pull medications from the shelves, you might pull the wrong drug, the wrong strength. Were dealing with a dangerous situation. We dont want to take the wrong medication. At neighborhood pharmacies every year, 30 million prescriptions are dispensed improperly. When youre at the pharmacy, open the package and show the medicine to the farmist to make sure its right and make sure your name is on the label. At number 21, botched Plastic Surgery. Marilyn lees wants to look a little younger, but after eyelid surgery shes unable to fully close her eyes. Thats how it is. Living with a mistake is bad enough can you die from Plastic Surgery . Oh, absolutely. Take the case of this beauty queen, this argentinian model wants a bigger butt. Why . There are men out there who like big butts. We are a culture that wants to feel attractive and if thats what makes us feel more attractive, then they want a bigger butt. The beauty queen goes in for the operation and then dies five days later. Heres where some experts think the surgery goes wrong. Whatever doctors inject in her butt to make them bigger, fat, silicone or something else, a piece of it breaks off, tears through the bloodstream, then lodges in our lungs. Without blood flow to her lungs, she struggles to breathe. Its called a pulmonary embolism. Make sure your surgeon is certified by the american board of Plastic Surgery. At number 20, dosage disasters. Movie star Dennis Quaids twins thomas and zoe develop an infection a few days after theyre born. They take a blood thinner called heprin to prepare their request ivs. When you have an iv, theres a minuscule dose they put in the iv. When the babies get the iv, their blood unexpectedly turns thin as water. At one point why they tried to clamp up a wound, blood spurted six feet across the room and splattered on the wall. Doctors realize someone has given the babies a massive overdose of heparin, 1,000 times more than its supposed to be. They didnt notice that it was the wrong dose. Heres that overdose happens. The adult dose was in a dark blue vile. The pediatric dose was in a light blue vial. An adult dosage was put where the pediatric dose is usually placed. Another nurse grabbed the vial without checking it. When youre in the hospital, ask for a daily list of medications and dosages and check them when they arrive. Ahead on my list you wont believe where this patient ends up after brain surgery. And tools left and forgotten in the worst place possible. I have a cold, and i took nyquil, but im still stubbed up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesnt unstuff your nose. What . [ male announcer ] alkaseltzer plus liquid gels speeds relief to your worst cold symptoms plus has a decongestant for your stuffy nose. Thanks. Thats the cold truth trying to find a better job can tlikbe frustrating. Gs, so at university of phoenix were working with a growing list of almost two thousand Corporate PartnersCompanies Like microsoft, American Red Cross and adobe to create options for you. Not only that, were using what we learn from these partners to shape our curriculum, so that when you find the job you want youll be a perfect fit. Lets get to work. Dosage disasters came in at number 20. At number 19, toxic transplants. Joshua hightower needs a new kidney. Hes on a list waiting his turn for the lifesaving organ. A potential donor dies. Joshua gets one of the mans kidneys and instead of getting better, he gets sicker. He was throwing up, headaches, had the shakes real bad. Sleeping a lot. Within months, joshua is dead at age 18. A doctor tells his mother he died of rabbies. And i said what do you mean rabies . Like some Foreign Branch of rabies . Like some kind thats uncommon or rare . Or the kind that you vaccinate your dog every year for . And he said jennifer, the kind you vaccinate your dog every year for. And just how does this teenager get rabies . A virus thats spread by animals. That new kidney he gets is infected for rabies before it gets inside his body. The organ donor habiten by a bat but no one knows it. The virus spreads through the bloodstream. No one suspected that this person had rabies. All the organs were transplanted and all the recipients contracted rabies. Reporter only later did doctors realize the donor had all the symptoms of r oohabies the beginning. There are thousands and thousands of potential pathogens that owners could be infected with. Testing for rabies is not universally tested for. After a transplant, if you get sicker instead of better, ask if the other recipients from the same donor are also sick. Early treatment could save your life. At number 18, dumb discharge. James undergoes brain surgery. He goes back to the hospital for more testing. The staples are still fresh in his head when the staff packs him off alone in a taxi cab. Most patients being discharged from a hospital should not be going home alone in a tax i cab. James is so disoriented he doesnt know his own address. I was confused. Stengtherangers find him askr help when the cab dropped him off in an unfamiliar neighborhood. It was wet, rainy, cold out. He had bandages and staples in his head still from his surgeries. These Good Samaritans helped james g et home after his careless release. A lot of people feel woozy when they leave the hospital. So make sure you have a ride home from someone who know where is you live. At number 17, ambulance errors. A lot can go wrong on the way to the hospital. Darlene dukes is struggling to breathe. She calls 911 and tells the operat operator where she is. 602 wales drive. 602 wales drive . Yes. Ion stead of dispatching an ambulance to wales drive. They send a paramedic to wells street. 27 miles away from darlene. Darlene dies from a blood clot, police say. After an ambulance takes more than 45 minutes to find her. Very, very critical amount of time in terms of the Response Time necessary to save somebodys life. When you call 911, slowly say and spell out the name of the street address. At number 16, lost patients. Nursing home patient mary cole turns up missing during a bed check. Finding her becomes a man hunt. Noted on her missing person poster, she suffers from alzheimers disease anticipate may be disoriented. Her daughter clings to hope and joins the search. We gave her morning until pitch dark. Four days goes by before shes found inside the nursing home, locked in a storage closet. I believed and trusted them a when they said we searched every room. We moved furniture. It was a lie. Mary wandered into that closet and got trapped. My mom suffered for four days and theres no excuse for it. 1 in 5 nursing home patients is prone to wandering. If your loved one sometimes wanders, consider getting them a gps bracelet that tracks their every move. At number 15, surgical souvenirs. Nelson bailey comes out of surgery with a sponge left in his abdomen. A foot long by a foot long. The medical report shows that it was rotting. It created per forrations in my intestines. Heres how a sponge can get left behind by mistake. Theres often blood, theres tissue. Its very difficult to see. And sometimes sponges are tucked under an organ inside you. Theyre not in clear view but theyre soaking up some fluid or blood. Take a look at this similar mistake. Thats a sixinch clamp. And this is a 13inch retractor. Nurses are supposed to keep track of how many tools go inside you and make sure the same number come out. Sometimes the initial count going in is wrong, their count going out is wrong and mistakes happen. Something gets left behind in as many as 2 out of every 10,000 surgerie surgeries. If you have unexpected fever, pain or swelling after surgery, ask if you might have a surgical memento buried within. Ahead on my list, air keeps us alive. So how does it kill this young man . And a mixup at the Maternity Ward that leaves moms bonding with the wrong baby. And im thinking, shouldnt you have more energy than me . Youre, like, eight [ male announcer ] for every 2 pounds you lose through diet and exercise alli can help you lose one more by blocking some of the fat you eat. 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In the nursery he needs to eat and the hospital worker hands the baby over to a stranger with the same last name. The wrong mother breast feeds moni monicas baby. Its hard for me to accept that, you know, my child has been with somebody that i dont even know. I would like to think i would know if someone brought me a baby that wasnt mine. You might, you might not. Most babies look pretty similar. Theyre all just kind of cute little cheeky things. Theyre not easy to distinguish from one another. Especially if you only seen it once or twice. A loving mother will love the baby that shes brought. When a nurse hands you your baby, ask the nurse to match your babys i. D. Band with yours. At number 13, air bubbles in blood. After weeks in the hospital, 19yearold blake fout is excited to be going home. Before he can leave, blake has to do just one last thing. Have a central line in his chest removed. While hes sitting upright, a nurse removes the tube and then seals it with gauze. You could hear popping from the central line site and it was just sucking air right into the vessels. Its called an air embolism and that air is killing blake. The air was cutting off the blood supply to his lungs and to his later, heart and to his kidd brain. Blake should have been lying down and the nurse should have sealed the hole airtight with vas te vaseline. This doctor is blakes mother. Shes only a medical student at the time of the mistake and doesnt know how to stop it. She begs the staff to do something but no one calls for a doctor until its too late. We went from planning a Surprise Party to planning a funeral. What i went to do is wake my daughter up and tell her her brother was not coming home ever. And i just it was horrible. While theres no national figure, you should know a report looking at just one hospitals icu finds improperly removed central lines caused 10 air embolisms a year. If you have a central line in you, ask how you should be positioned wh ent eed when the out. At number 12, misdiagnosed. Morgan mccracken gets socked in the head with a baseball. Mom and dad ice the bump down. The 7yearold seems fine until two nights later when she cries out for help. Mom, mom, my head, its hurting. She was holding it. My head is hurting, my head is hurting. The mccrackens rushmore ggano the hospital. We couldnt get there fast enough. A doctor says dont worry. Its late, shes tired. She probably has a touch of the flu. A gut feeling tells them the doctor has the diagnosis wrong. They asked for a ct scan of her h ed. But the doctor wont listen. Whats the consequences of a doctor not listening to you . Theyre failing to register and therefore look on your body for the first clues of that and begin to order the right tests. After hours of begging, the doctor finally does listen and orders a ct scan. Heres what he missed a blood clot inside morganssurgery sav. One out of the 10 diagnoses you receive from a doctor might be wrong. Like morgans parents, you should trust your instincts. If a diagnosis doesnt sound right to you, get a second opinion. At number 11, transfusion confusion. Blake oliver feels sharp pain in his stomach. He goes to the hospital. He needs surgery and a blood transfusion. The new blood has to match his blood. Some people are o type blood, some people are a type blood, some people are b type blood. You cant transfuse the different type blood because your bod interprets it as an invading bacteria. To know blakes blood type his blood needs to be drawn and tested. Instead, a mistake is done on his hospitals roommate. The roommates blood listed a positive was listed blake oliver and given to him. The a type blood mixes with blakes otype blood. It can cause the blood cells to rupture. And when they rupture, they can clog up your organs, its called a hemolytic reaction. That new blood kills blake. It was just the most awful, ridiculous scenario in that it could have been 100 prevented. Listen carefully. 1 out of every 19,000 units of blood given is a mismatch. Know your blood type so if you gee getting blood, you can check the bag to make sure its a match. At number 10, getting burned. This expects his heart bypass to go smoothly. No big deal. I want to go home the same day. Monitoring cables are snaked through his heart, but the monitor malfunctions and the cables get so hot, the inside of his heart is cooked. The damage, irreparable, and he has to get a new heart. Rocky rockenbach also gets burned in the hospital when doctors turn his throat into a blow torch. Heres how it happens, during surgery a balloon is inflated to block anaesthesia gases in his lungs from rising up. A surgeons laser p