"Bring out yer dead!"
"But I'm not dead yet! I feel happy!"
Posted on 07/07/2013 7:02:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Syracuse, NY - Doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center were about to remove organs for transplant from a woman they thought was dead.
Then she opened her eyes. She was alive.
The state Health Department found St. Joe's care of patient Colleen S. Burns in 2009 unacceptable and a federal agency criticized the hospital for not properly investigating the cause. The hospital's mishandling of the case was part of the reason the state Health Department fined St. Joe's $22,000 last September...
A series of mistakes that began shortly after Burns arrived in the emergency room suffering from a drug overdose led to the near catastrophe, the investigations showed. A review by the state Health Department found:
*Staff skipped a recommended treatment to prevent the drugs the patient took from being absorbed by her stomach and intestines.
*Not enough testing was done to see if she was free of all drugs.
*Not enough brain scans were performed.
*Doctors ignored a nurse's observations indicating Burns was not dead and her condition was improving.
The hospital made no effort to thoroughly investigate what went wrong until it was prodded by the state. The investigation did find, however that St. Joe's had acceptable organ procurement policies and procedures.
Burns, 41, of North Syracuse, recovered from her overdose of Xanax, Benadryl and a muscle relaxant and was discharged from the hospital two weeks after the near-miss in the operating room. But 16 months later, in January 2011, she committed suicide, said her mother, Lucille Kuss.
Having her daughter mistaken as dead and nearly cut open at the hospital was a horrible experience for the family, Kuss said. The doctors never explained what went wrong, she said.
"They were just kind of shocked themselves," she said. "It came as a surprise to them as well."
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
I wonder if such “mistakes” occur more often than the American people know.
Shades of “Kingdom Hospital” :).
You have to wonder how many liberals get their organs harvested like that. The doctors find no brain activity and don’t look further to find they are simply Obama supporters.
Yes, very ...
Bwahahahahahaha ... THAT is dark humor!
“The investigation did find, however that St. Joe’s had acceptable organ procurement policies and procedures.”
I would say this hospital has an AGGRESSIVE organ procurement policy!
If it was me, I’d be screaming LAWYER at the top of my lungs.
I watched my wife's doctor do this when our baby was born- I called him aside and asked him why he ignored perfectly sound medical observations from a trained observer
Just think how bad it will be when Obamacare is in full swing.
All the Frank Burns will be free to operate without fear of getting busted.
"Bring out yer dead!"
"But I'm not dead yet! I feel happy!"
I watched my wife's doctor do this when our baby was born- I called him aside and asked him why he ignored perfectly sound medical observations from a trained observer
BwaaaHaHaHa. The lungs are the first thing they harvest....even before the heart.
The clever bastards.
So you take care of yourself. Live right. Don’t smoke or drink. Insert your weener in only the correct gender and correct orifice....and in the end, under Obamacare....all that careful prep works gets harvested for a registered Democrat so they can vote the next mid-terms.
Makes you want to catch AIDS and tattoo the fact on your chest.
Think I’ll just get the tattoo.
People go to the hospital to die. The doctors will ensure you do if you are an organ donor.
Do not sign a organ donor card. If these mistakes happen now, can you imagine what will happen under ObamaCare when that bankrupt health care system will be able to make some extra money on harvested organs?
They will remove organs from living persons (sans anesthesia) if they believe you are “brain dead”. They will remove enough (eyes, etc.) that won’t “kill you”.
Organ harvesting for profit.
Next time a woman tells you it’s her body to do with as she wants, ask her to sell a kidney. Can’t. Have to “give it” to a broker who will sell it.
They were just practicing for ObamaCare.
Heck its a lesson to people who fall asleep in the hospital.
Probably fairly often to those who have organ donor marked on their license.
In this case, the woman in question never filed suit, allegedly because of her ongoing issues with depression, and later committed suicide.
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