# 204, also check out 201 , 202.
Thanks, Smokeyblue.
Posted on 05/07/2012 7:21:58 PM PDT by Nachum
A private investigator has been unable to find the only eyewitness to the sudden death of media innovator and conservative activist Andrew Breitbart.
The apparent disappearance of Christopher Lasseter, who says he saw Breitbart drop to the sidewalk in front of a restaurant, adds to the mystery surrounding Breitbart’s March 1 death.
On the day the Los Angeles County coroner released Breitbart’s autopsy report, a photographic technician at the corner’s office died suddenly of suspicious causes.
In addition, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., just three weeks before Breitbart’s death – where he promised to unveil “damning” new video evidence of Barack Obama’s radical past that would change the election – Breitbart gave WND details of his upcoming revelations.
He claimed to WND that he had a video showing radical Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and Barack Obama at Harvard planning revolution in the United States. But the video, aired just after he died, was of Obama introducing a radical Harvard professor, and the general response was flat.
Filmmaker Steve Bannon, appointed executive chairman of the Breitbart News Network after Breitbart’s death, has insisted to WND that the media mogul died of natural causes and to suggest anything else is irresponsible.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
The following day, Cormier’s stomach pain continued, and he was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s, where he suffered three heart attacks, according to a law-enforcement source. When an initial toxicology test proved “questionable” and Cormier later died, the hospital notified the coroner’s office."
Doesn't it seem strange the hospital released him? They were surmising either a perforated bowel or poisoning both sound like serious conditions that need immediate treatment.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-perforated-bowel.htm
A perforated bowel is a medical emergency in which a hole in the bowel opens to allow its contents to empty into the rest of the abdominal cavity. The result is frequently sepsis or blood infection, which if not treated can cause almost immediate death. A perforated bowel can occur as the result of traumatic injury, Crohn’s Disease, or diverticulitis.
Symptoms of a perforated bowel include high fever and nausea. Those afflicted will also experience extreme abdominal pain which worsens when one moves. Intense vomiting may occur and result in dehydration. These very serious symptoms need emergency treatment, particularly if one has causal factors like Crohn’s Disease or diverticulitis. Those experiencing these symptoms should waste no time in seeing by a doctor.
In virtually all cases, perforated bowel requires surgery to wash out the abdomen. The perforated bowel is then repaired.
Why did the hospital release Cormier with either a suspected perforated bowel or poisoning?
Police Debunk Theories Linking Breitbart, L.A. Coroner Tech Deaths
Cormier was first hospitalized on April 18, complaining of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. Doctors suspected he had a perforated bowel but released him anyway, though not before Cormier told them he thought someone had tried to poison him.
The following day, Cormier’s stomach pain continued, and he was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s, where he suffered three heart attacks, according to a law-enforcement source. When an initial toxicology test proved “questionable” and Cormier later died, the hospital notified the coroner’s office.
Thanks for the info. Like I said, if the reporters in this story accurately reported what the doctors said, these doctors are ripe for a wrongful death lawsuit. If they believed he had a perforated bowel, they were grossly negligent in not checking it out and repairing what would otherwise be a fatal condition.
Methinks maybe there’s a little bit of shifting stories - just like with Breitbart. It might sound good to say that Cormier wasn’t poisoned; he just had a perforated bowel. But if that’s the line they’re gonna use they’ve got a lot of other questions to answer! Seems like the only reason they’d kick him out the door with either a perforated bowel or poisoning is if they wanted him dead.
Seems like good reporters would have asked the doctors why they let him go if they thought he had a perforated bowel. But then, as I said, the article leaves a lot to be desired and I have to wonder if this is just a media attempt to blow smoke at us. Like usual.
It also doesn’t sound like a perforated bowel would cause heart attacks. Seems like death comes by sepsis - which would be detected immediately by a blood test. And I would think the autopsy would show that also. Right now the autopsy is done; they’re just waiting on the toxicology results. The article makes it sound like he had 3 heart attacks but didn’t die until “later”.
# 204, also check out 201 , 202.
Thanks, Smokeyblue.
Your posts are a great summary.
Just my opinion, but it just seems hard to believe that doctors who suspected a perforated bowel would send him home. More likely, they didn’t take his complaint of poisoning seriously.
Either way, this article doesn’t make the hospital look good and sounds like Cormier was on his own.
A perforated bowel kills.
If he was sent home and the medical record reads something along the lines of ‘possible perforated bowel’ with no documentation of methods to rule it out, the hospital is in a world of hurt.
A perforated bowel is an emergency and requires immediate surgical intervention. The longer the delay, the less likely the patient is to survive.
The article claims the cops are the ones who told the reporters that the hospital suspected perforated bowel but sent him home anyway. I seriously doubt whether anybody in the medical field would be willing to make such a claim because they’d know that would constitute medical malpractice.
Maybe the hospital poo-poohed Cormier’s claims of poisoning and sent him home but if they wanted to cover their behinds they would NOT say they suspected perforated bowel. They’d put something else in the medical record if they wanted to cover their behinds because the perforated bowel story could be a quick way to either be sued or lose a medical license. This story doesn’t make sense from a medical standpoint whatsoever.
Suspecting a perforated bowel but sending him home anyway did not happen. It’s got to be an excuse, and it is not an excuse that the medical people would make up. I suspect that the cops made it up.
If so, what else are they willing to make up?
I’d really like to hear the hospital explain why the cops are saying the hospital sent home somebody they suspected of either being poisoned or having a perforated bowel - 2 fatal conditions if there is no intervention/treatment.
Oh well. . .you might think there were be a few more offers out there; but really; do not know what is going on here.
Save, that is; the usual media confusion/obsfucation; that unfolds between a 'real story' and one that may not be real at all. This is simply now; a stay tuned - for however long it takes. . .and from whomever 'goes there'.
As if this medical savvy guy would have allowed a doctor to send him home with a perforated bowel. Then there’s those pesky heart attacks which bring to mind AB. This admin has Arkancide beat all to heck.
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