Posted on 10/08/2008 8:41:53 AM PDT by Justice Department
Wilmington, DE (AHN) - A man from Georgetown, Delaware has sued the Beebe Medical Center (BMC) in Lewes and its staff for allegedly wrongly declaring his wife dead in May last year.
Johnson brought his wife to the hospital at 7:35 p.m. for treatment of indigestion but she soon suffered a heart attack at 8:05 p.m. Doctors called for Johnson, who was in the waiting room, and told him his wife did not respond to resuscitation and never regained a pulse so she was declared dead at 8:34 p.m.
At 9:50 p.m., a nurse noticed Judith was still breathing and alive.
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Oh My
So, is she alive today?
“Hello everybody! Meester Johnson, I am sorry to be telling you that your wife is—brace yourself: dead, but only from the waist down!”
Dr. Nick
“So, is she alive today?”
Whose to say?
“In the suit, Louis Johnson also charged that the hospital failed to provide adequate medical care and was negligent in treating her 61-year-old wife, Judith, from her heart attack on May 6, 2007. He sought an unspecified amount of damages and penalty.”
“I thought you said she was dead!”
She got stuned at Beebe Hospital.
An older man walks in to the living room and sees his wife laying on the couch. He tries to stir her awake but she won’t budge.
He rushes to the phone and calls an ambulance. Minutes later, the ambulance arrives and the paramedics start working on her but to no avail and they declare her dead and load her onto the stretcher.
As the paramedics make their way down the narrow walk in front of the house, they accidently bump into a large oak tree and the Mrs. falls off the stretcher and hits the ground. The paramedics are stunned to see that she has started breathing and regained conciousness. Despite her being dazed and a little confused, the rescue team is elated to see that she is still alive.
Ten years later, the man walks into the living room and sees his wife laying on the couch. He tries to stir her awake but she is stiff and cold to the touch. He calls 911 and soon after the ambulance arrives. They load her onto a stretcher and head out the front door. The man follows yelling to the paramedics, “Be careful! Watch that tree!”
He suffered grief for a tiny bit over an hour. Is he suing because she “died” for that hour, or because she’s alive????
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart]
Large Man with Dead Body: Here’s one.
The Dead Collector: That’ll be ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There’s your ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: ‘Ere, he says he’s not dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not.
The Dead Collector: He isn’t.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he’s very ill.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m getting better.
Large Man with Dead Body: No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
The Dead Collector: Well, I can’t take him like that. It’s against regulations.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I don’t want to go on the cart.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don’t be such a baby.
The Dead Collector: I can’t take him.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I feel fine.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.
The Dead Collector: I can’t.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won’t be long.
The Dead Collector: I promised I’d be at the Robinsons’. They’ve lost nine today.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when’s your next round?
The Dead Collector: Thursday.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I think I’ll go for a walk.
Large Man with Dead Body: You’re not fooling anyone, you know. Isn’t there anything you could do?
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]
Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.
The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Large Man with Dead Body: Right.
This mutt should be jumping for joy, but no, the first thing he thinks about is suing, fricken scum bag.
that would be the FIRST question for the respondant attorney “So are you suing because she died or because she lived?”
Lazaras Ping.
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Obviously a typo.
It should be "Lazamataz Syndrome". Just brought back to life. :)
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