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...second period was a defensive stalemate for 17:58 until sophomore attacker Liz Schoyer crept up on Loyola goaltender Dana Hoffman's left side and rifled the ball over her head to tie the game. The Greyhounds broke the 4-0 Crimson run with a score by Betsy Given, but Winters knocked in her second goal of the day to send the game into overtime...
Grant's home life became worse after her oldersister Dana moved out, according to Grant's lawyerin the 1991 murder trial, Jack B. Swerling...
Still, all hospitals double-check the dosage of chemotherapy drugs that are given to a patient--and Dana-Farber is no exception. According to Gina Vild, a hospital spokeswoman, once the physician has written the order, Dana-Farber's rules require two pharmacists to verify it. "Pharmacist 1 is supposed to check it and, yes, is supposed to make the calculations himself," she told TIME. He then "gives it to Pharmacist 2, who looks at it and checks it" before sending the drug to the patient's room. When the order for Lehman came through, neither pharmacist caught the mistake...
...Dana-Farber has acknowledged full responsibility for Lehman's death, as well as the permanent heart damage of another woman who managed to survive an identical fourfold overdose. In addition to ordering an exhaustive investigation, the hospital's top physician has mandated additional precautions against such egregious mistakes. Staff members have been reassigned, and the pharmacy's computer program has been modified so that drugs cannot be dispensed over preset limits...
...happen with a bone-marrow transplant, a coronary-bypass operation or an experiment in gene therapy. As medicine has become more complex and the pace of technological change has accelerated, the opportunities for error have multiplied. And when doctors are constantly testing new treatments, as they are at Dana-Farber, they cannot fall back on years of experience...