First, I have no more understanding of the pressor than you....but I have done General/Trauma surgery for 25+ years and what I just heard from the good mayor is bullsh*t in the extreme.
First, Why is the MAYOR of a hamlet of Chicago conducting a press conference regarding a death investigation? If I were the DA I would prosecute him for interference with an official investigation.
If I got it correct Kelly was alert, awake, and speaking while at the first hospital (Oak Forrest Hospital). If they have an emergency room staffed by a ER physician and if they have Internists on call they can handly this case at this precise point. Next he was transferred to Strogen Hospital where he was still alert. Then, according the Welch, the attending wanted him transferred to Cook County because it was a Level III trauma center. Why? There had been no traumatic injuries reported regarding Kelly, unless the "groin" surgery (a controlled trauma) was the reason....(but it had been a week since his elective surgery....sounds like he had a herniorrhaphy. This brings us another quesiton. Someone who is despondent and contemplating suicide....why would he go through an elective surgery. Elective surgery is so you will feel better in months and years to come. If you are going to kill yourself people generally do not think of long term plans. The one reason he might be referred to Cook County is because his private physician(s) practice there which is very, very unlikely...it is a county dumping ground.
Welch moves inexplicably from...."I cannot divuldge specifics of the case",....to....."I will give you a copy of the driver license personal identification of Ms.Flores", to all of the newspeople. A bit of a taint there, I think.
Now, what do we know a bout Cook County Hospital. Well, who runs that hospital and thus would be able to control information out of it. The City Fathers...the Daley machine. Who does not want Blago to speak on 'inproprieties' and malfeasance of the Political Machine of Chicago......well it is the same people. My, My.
If this patient had died in my hospital the physician principles would be brought before morbidity/mortality commiteess and have to explain themselves. Clearly the level of care did not rise to the standard everyone deserves in this country.
It sounds like Mr.Kelly needed to be in a controlled environment to finish a job. He was, in essence, murdered...The best I can say is it was a medical murder.
Excellent points..especially the part about his ‘elective’ surgery(unless the mob had done a little ‘surgery’ on him at the lumber yard and they can’t let that get out...lol).
You touched on something that I didn’t catch and that is the part about a conversation about him being trasferred to yet a third hospital(Cook County). I assumed that the Stroger hospital WAS the hospital in Cook County. Still confused on that part.
BTW..the mayor is now backing off of the part about Kelly telling anyone he was trying to commit suicide.
http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/28c10c61-www.wlos.com.shtml
So glad that a doctor is weighing in on this. Thank you for your insights. My husband took a half a bottle of baby aspirin when he was a child. It was a very small town..no ‘trauma center’ etc. They pumped his stomach and gave him charcoal and he was fine(that was around 45 years ago). Surely they have made even more progress in treating aspirin overdoses by now.
Your point about the mayor giving out all the details of this woman and then clamming up when it came to Kelly was also an excellent point.
Thanks for your post. There is definately a murder here! No doubt that they will try to hide everything they can behind the HIPA laws too.