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Vancouver hospital asked wrong family whether to pull the plug on patient
KGW ^ | Feb. 21, 2024 | Kyle Iboshi

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at kgw.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: washington
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To: Rio

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.

41 posted on 02/22/2024 4:25:29 PM PST by TChad
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To: Gamecock
One thing I have learned from watching TV is that it is possible to wake up from a coma.

No doubt another House, M.D fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA9TA21_1Pk

42 posted on 02/22/2024 5:42:05 PM PST by TChad
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43 posted on 02/22/2024 5:45:34 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Cold_Red_Steel
"A few years back, Calgary, (with one of Canada’s top hospitals) sent a woman to give birth to quintuplets in little podunk Great Falls, Montana, because they could not cope with the expected complications."

Probably a little better than "Big Fork General & Burger Town"


44 posted on 02/23/2024 6:58:57 PM PST by guest7
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The moved the quint mom to the states because we had more incubators in one city than they had in entire provinces


45 posted on 02/23/2024 7:01:39 PM PST by Chickensoup
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