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Congressman: Murtha Died After Intestine Was Damaged in Surgery
Fox ews ^ | February 08, 2010

Posted on 02/08/2010 10:23:08 PM PST by South40

WASHINGTON -- A Pennsylvania congressman and longtime friend of the late Rep. John Murtha said late Monday the congressman's large intestine was damaged during gallbladder surgery and the complications led him to be hospitalized.

The Pennsylvania Democrat died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan. 31. The gallbladder surgery was performed days earlier at the National Naval Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md., which didn't immediately return messages seeking comment.

The gallbladder surgery was performed days earlier at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

Rep. Bob Brady said an infection developed and that Murtha had a fever when he was admitted to the Virginia hospital.

Brady called Murtha his "buddy" and says he'll remember him forever. "There will never be another Jack Murtha," Brady said. "He went out on top of his game."

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"There will never be another Jack Murtha,"

We can only hope.

1 posted on 02/08/2010 10:23:08 PM PST by South40
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To: South40

Isn’t that the same hospital Senator Joe McCarthy died in ?


2 posted on 02/08/2010 10:24:28 PM PST by kingpins10
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To: South40

Looks like John Edwards has some work


3 posted on 02/08/2010 10:26:18 PM PST by rjones42
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To: South40
"He went out on top of his game."

He sure did. He was quite the game player.

4 posted on 02/08/2010 10:26:32 PM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: South40

How ironic - a victim of government health care (and possible a corpseman).


5 posted on 02/08/2010 10:26:43 PM PST by Montanabound
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To: South40

I wonder if the Doc was a Marine?


6 posted on 02/08/2010 10:28:38 PM PST by Paladin2
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I wonder if the Doc was a Marine?

...or who paid him off.

8 posted on 02/08/2010 10:30:57 PM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

:)


9 posted on 02/08/2010 10:31:58 PM PST by rae4palin (islam is of the devil)
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To: South40
RIP Jack Murtha. May God judge you fairly.
10 posted on 02/08/2010 10:33:16 PM PST by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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To: South40

Why didn’t the messiah lay hands on him? “Jack, we need your vote. Rise and go forth.”
On the other hand, being dead hasn’t stopped democrates from voting, has it?


11 posted on 02/08/2010 10:34:49 PM PST by irishtenor (Beer. God's way of making sure the Irish don't take over the world.)
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To: South40

Sure would like a wire tap on the call today between Dead Fish & Fast Eddie.


12 posted on 02/08/2010 10:36:53 PM PST by Kahuna
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To: rjones42

Ah, government health care! Too bad all of Congress doesn’t have it.


13 posted on 02/08/2010 10:36:59 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: South40

Good riddance to one of the most dispicable,miserable,commie pieces of excrement that ever crapped between two boots.My question is what level of hell does he end up in?


14 posted on 02/08/2010 10:37:35 PM PST by Candor7 (((The effective weapons against Oba- Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA)))
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"I wonder if the Doc was a Marine?"

Prior service perhaps, but all medical personal, to include all physicians, who work for the Department of the Navy, actually work in the Navy. There are no Marine Corps medical MOS's, FWIW.

15 posted on 02/08/2010 10:42:28 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: South40

Cross that hospital off your list, that’s a simple operation these days.


16 posted on 02/08/2010 10:48:06 PM PST by boocoowell (Nuclear power now for crying out loud)
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To: South40
The gallbladder surgery was performed days earlier at the National Naval Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md., which didn't immediately return messages seeking comment.

Part of the free, premier care Congress gets. Sure to be a government inquiry over this.

17 posted on 02/08/2010 10:52:53 PM PST by VeniVidiVici ("Bring out yer dead! Bring out your dead!" - Cries of a Navy Corpseman)
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To: South40

In the real world its sad and condolences to his family, but to be real in the political arena its just one less corrupted politician to vote out.

To me he was one of those that would help you (veterans) to get your vote then stab you in the back. I lost respect when he said American troops where kicking doors in and committing cold blooded murder, and enabling our enemy’s propaganda machine and turning Americans against Americans.


18 posted on 02/08/2010 11:01:25 PM PST by buggy02 (Never take life seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway.)
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To: South40

It sounds like he developed sepsis. That is a horrible way to go, my mother had it twice, I wouldn’t have wished that on anyone. Prayers for his family.


19 posted on 02/08/2010 11:22:20 PM PST by SueRae
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Part of the free, premier care Congress gets. Sure to be a government inquiry over this.

I want to know who gets sued. Let me guess, me? I think it's the trial lawyers who are the real force stopping the public option. They'll get tort reform in a hurry if the taxpayers have to pay malpractice judgments directly, although we pay one way or the other either way.

20 posted on 02/08/2010 11:27:57 PM PST by Perchant
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