Posted on 02/22/2024 11:32:27 AM PST by Rio
In a terrible case of mistaken identity, KGW found PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver allowed a family to pull the plug on the wrong man.
The family of a Vancouver man faced a heavy decision after an unexpected phone call in the middle of the night. Their loved one was on life support, hospital staff told them, after a horrible choking incident.
“They said, 'He’s basically brain dead,'” explained Debbie Danielson. “'Do you want us to keep him on life support or do you want to pull the plug?'”
After a brief discussion with her husband, Danielson told the hospital to pull her 60-year-old brother off life support.
“Michael A. Beehler, 60, Vancouver, died August 9, 2021,” read a death notice posted in The Columbian newspaper.
Then came the phone call no one expected. It was her brother, Mike. He wasn’t dead. Instead, he was very much alive.
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For the skeptics in this thread, the photo shows Vancouver, Washington, not Vancouver, British Columbia. It really exists! Portland, Oregon is on the other side of the river, and Vancouver, British Columbia is about 300 miles to the north.
No doubt another House, M.D fan.
Probably a little better than "Big Fork General & Burger Town"
The moved the quint mom to the states because we had more incubators in one city than they had in entire provinces
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