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Harsh lesson spawns Boston cancer center's rigorous mistake-prevention measures.
Byline: Scott Allen
Nov. 30--Nurse Teresa Mazeika has known the woman knitting in the blue reclining chair for months. But she asks Carolyn Harlow her name and birthday anyway, as she approaches with chemotherapy for Harlow's blood cancer. Mazeika, a 17-year nursing veteran at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, isn't taking any chances that she is about to give the drug to the wrong patient.
The name game is just one in a string of rituals Mazeika goes through before Harlow can have an injection that lasts all of five seconds: She reviews Harlow's treatment instructions on a computer to be sure the patient is getting the correct medicine; she checks the ...
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