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New package: The Hospital for Sick Children has switched to this packaging for the drug Lasix, since baby Raymond Whitbread was given the wrong drug shortly before he died
New package: The Hospital for Sick Children has switched to this packaging for the drug Lasix, since baby Raymond Whitbread was given the wrong drug shortly before he died

New package: The Hospital for Sick Children has switched to this packaging for the drug Lasix, since baby Raymond Whitbread was given the wrong drug shortly before he died

Date1/31/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: New package: The Hospital for Sick Children has switched to this packaging for the drug Lasix; since baby Raymond Whitbread was given the wrong drug shortly before he died.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0005520F
Drug mix-up: These two drugs in identical vials were at Raymond Whitbread's beside and a nurse told the baby's inquest yesterday that she handed the doctor the wrong one
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The baby deaths at the hospital for sick children
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The apparatus for preparing and using drugs is displayed by Metro Det
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Speed lab: Inspector Sefrin Ginther of the RCMP, left, and Inspector Forbes Ewing of Metro police look over equipment seized in a drug lab near Penetanguishene this week
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