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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For his military service as a Marine, and for his time in Vietnam, for which he received a Bronze star and two Purple Hearts, may he be buried at Arlington.
For what he said about our Marines in Iraq, may his tombstone be a working Latrine.
Once upon a time he was a proud marine. Now he’s a corps-man.
He received VA quality medical care. Socialized medicine staffed by foreign doctors and foriegn nurses.
When Joan Crawford died in 1977, Bette Davis had the last word – “You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
Jack Murtha is dead, good.
You live by the sword you die by the sword.
http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/how_serious_gallstones_gallbladder_disease_000010_3.htm
Don’t assume malpractice too quickly. A hot gallbladder has a whole bunch of very dangerous complications that can nail a person.
I think Bette borrowed that quote about Joan from the late comedian Moms Mabley. Moms died in ‘75.
Many things I could say here, but I won't speak ill of the dead.
Big Jack’s number was up. Soon he’ll have to pay the piper. The “negotiation” process he’ll be entering is going to be quite a shock for him.
I might be wrong, but I suspect that he was a combat vet like Kerry. Anybody who will lie about honorable Marines will lie about other things too.
How ironic - a victim of government health care (and possible a corpseman)
VERY VERY CUTE
SO,was Murtha still in office? So will he be replaced by a pub?
Naval Hospital. Marine surgeon?
Now they can close his stupid airport and turn it into a shopping mall that has long, skinny parking lots.
Do we really need to read this sort of bilge from our side too? Bad enough we get it from the Left!
You have a 99.9% chance of being correct. This sorry excuse of a human being was what we called in Vietnam a "Compound Coward"...who only ventured outside for self serving reasons!
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Maybe next time military-hating Democrats like Murtha will think about using civilian hospitals when they go under the knife. I do think that we owe the doctor a debt of gratitude.
The M in MSNBC this morning is for Murtha. He is being lionized.
“When Joan Crawford died in 1977, Bette Davis had the last word – “You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good.”
I think Moms Mabley beat Betty Davis to that quote.
He ,like Kerry would not release his military records.
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