FOX News - 1 Child Every 8 Minutes Visits ER for Ingesting Wrong Medicine

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Stephen Teach, M.D., professor of pediatrics, talked to FOX News about his 25 years as a doctor, saying on an average day he'll see at least one child come into the hospital who have ingested medicine he or she should not have.

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