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
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.
All sorts of irresistible opportunities for double billing here.
“Is this Hillary Clinton? Good. We have a Republican in critical condition. Do you want us to pull the plug?”
I'm curious, has Traitor Joe made any trips to Canada?
what surprises me most is the sister of the man making a decision of that magnitude in a few seconds....I would at least want to see my brother in real life before his demise...
Well, there are two issues I can see here:
1. The poor fellow they pulled the plug on was brain dead. Yes, they didn’t have permission, and the family should have made the decision, but they may also have elected to pull the plug, anyway. So it’s not like some guy came into for a routine operation and the next thing is they’re carting him off to the morgue. “I’m not dead yet!”
2. Secondly, I’d guess the brother was pretty ticked off. “Wait a minute- you told them to pull the plug on me?”