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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I should add that this is Vancouver, WA... Across the river from Portland, OR.
“allowed a family to pull the plug on the wrong man”
No.....try again.
I’m surprised that a hospital would even take a verbal directive over the phone. This must have been in Canada or something. A US hospital would be having you sign a phone book’s worth of consent forms.
don’t ‘die’ in Canada. you may really have to die.
Canada kills people for being depressed
“ I should add that this is Vancouver, WA... Across the river from Portland, OR.”
They don’t want people to have to travel to Canada for suicide
Yes it’s just on the other side of the bridge
Sure it was an accident.
I have so little trust in the government/medical complex these days that I could see them doing this as a way of getting an extra death sneaked in once in a while.
Heathcare was small business then came Medicare in 1965 and the rest is history.
Oops.No malpractice.
That’s not a decision I would make on a call in the middle of the night. You need to talk to someone in person.
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.
How does the brother feel about her now?
That is sickening...
If Michael Beehler should happen to become extremely depressed because of his misidentification you just know the same Canadian healthcare system will offer him free suicide to ease his troubles.
Oh, I’m sorry. Medical Assistance in Dying, I meant. Those words make it nice or something.
Wouldn’t you want to go see him with your own eyes? Didn’t somebody have to identify him before they offed him?
I actually know someone who was called to see a relative in the ICU in critical care. When he got there, it wasn’t his relative! They called the wrong person. So luckily, for that family, they were able to track them down.
I know mistakes happen, but this sort of thing is very, very wrong.
It happened in the U.S. They can’t wait to pull the plug.
Do you have a citation?
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