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Mystery of Decomposed Body Baffles Hospital
Reuters via Yahoo! News ^
| Fri Oct 11, 9:03 AM ET
Posted on 10/11/2002 9:20:50 AM PDT by Conagher
PARIS (Reuters) - Was the hospital waiting list too long or did the patient just get lost?
Questions are being asked at the Hotel Dieu hospital in Paris where a plumber working in the basement last week came across a decomposed corpse wearing hospital pajamas, Le Figaro newspaper reported on Thursday.
Hospital administrators are asking whether the corpse could be that of a tramp who got into the hospital and donned pajamas for some creature comfort, or a patient who absconded and was never found.
An autopsy is to be carried out to try to identify the macabre discovery.
But would-be patients at the hospital, located near Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris, may be perplexed to hear a comment from a staff member who preferred to remain anonymous.
"We lose about six or seven patients a year," he told Le Figaro.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conagheralert; doh; france; frenchies; frogs; hospital; oops; socializedmedicine; surrendermonkeys
Six or seven per year is acceptable in France, apparently.
Next time Germany invades them, let's just let the Germans have France.
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:20:51 AM PDT
by
Conagher
To: Conagher
Why would something like this happen?...In true French fashion, "I give up" trying to figure it out.
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:27:25 AM PDT
by
My2Cents
To: Conagher
Most likely a Democrat voter who lost his way back to the cemetery.
To: Conagher
You'd think somebody would notice the smell after a while...uh, I forgot,
the French are genetically unable to recognize body odors. My bad.
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:34:45 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: Conagher
Hillary model healthcare ....
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:43:13 AM PDT
by
Cachelot
To: Conagher
So THAT'S what happened to the Lizard King!
(old '60s reference)
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:46:14 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
To: Conagher
Socialized Medicine... C'est magnifique, n'est pas?
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:47:06 AM PDT
by
jae471
To: Conagher
Perhaps he got lost looking for the cheese.
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:48:24 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
To: Conagher
No, we don't have to let the Germans take France, the French will give it to them easily so they can fight from the inside.
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:50:48 AM PDT
by
11B3
To: Conagher
Hospital administrators are asking whether the corpse could be that of a tramp who got into the hospital and donned pajamas for some creature comfortObviously, they never have donned their own pajamas. Comfort, indeed.
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posted on
10/11/2002 9:53:03 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Mind-numbed Robot
Most likely a Democrat voter who lost his way back to the cemetery. But how did he get from Palm Beach to Paris? Wrong turn at the Keys?
To: *Socialized Medicine
To: Conagher
Might be Fox Mouldering.
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