You might remember a few weeks back I wrote about a friend pushing dirt in front of the PORTA-JON(POTTY) and then later rolling it over with the dozier pouring the occupant out. Well, the hospital killed him and the family is burying him today. He went in for test for a bleeding ulcer and they gave him a shot of something he wasn't supposed to have. It was a collection of hospital mistakes after that until they had to unplug him and let him pass away.
The hospital made numerous errors and then tried to cover their ass by losing all the paperwork. His daughter asked for and paid for an autopsy in the state of NC. The next morning the hospital shipped is body across the state line to the funeral home without an autopsy knowing that after embalming him there could be no autopsy. Also that action would triple the cost of the autopsy and tangle it in legal actions that they hoped would stymie any autopsy. His daughter happened to be at the funeral home when the body came in and stopped them from embalming him. She paid the extra cost for "another" autopsy in Greenville, SC. Another autopsy on a body that hadn't had the first autopsy.
Well, he may have looked like a homeless person to the hospital staff but unfortunately for them, he was wealthy. His daughter is a nurse that sits on the board of a hospital. She knows her stuff and has records of what went on with her daddy. This is one lawsuit that I hope goes well for the family.
He was good as gold. Do anything for you, loan you anything he had, help you anyway he could. ....and he loved a good laugh.
This caught my eye, the body was shipped across the state line to be embalmed.
Far as I know one cannot ship a body outside of any state or from any country that has not been embalmed FIRST.
Then It is strange that any funeral home will go to the expense of embalming without consent of the family and is a big expense as an extra for the family.
Very strange story, Johnny, what you are saying is, if I die in my hometown hospital, the hospital has the right to dispose of my body in any way they see fit with out permission from my family ???
Some funeral home in another state is going to go to the trouble and cost to embalm a body that no family member has agreed to pay for???? The daughter refused to pay for embalming and demanded an autopsy in another state from where her father died after paying for an autopsy in the state he died in????????
Very odd to say the least. Hospitals do make horrid mistakes, when I went into Boston General for a removal of a tumor on my left leg, only 2 weeks before had some doctor removed the wrong leg of a patient with the same problem.
So when I went into surgery I had taken a marking pen and had written on my shin, this leg, and on the right leg ---no problem here.
Last thing I remember was a nurse reviewing my chart telling another nurse that I needed an ankle bracelet to show my allergy to Penicillin and she was hot with those that had forgotten to put it on me.
Lights out, 7 hours later I woke up, still had my leg, and as confused as I was, there were 2 family members there that had hitchhiked from NC to Boston. What the heck I had nothing of worth to leave them, must have been love-guilt or a combo of both.
You Johnny can go into a hospital for Gall Stones and come out with Hospital Staff, or any number of life threatening diseases.
If one looks back in time, it was a fact that no woman giving birth in a London Hospital survived due to disease from the hospitals. Only woman who survived in a 2 year period were those that had home birth.
Early 1700's.
Who is to say what happend to your friend while in the hospital, it is the after death that shenanigans that interest me, More information please, on how The family got all this grief After he died.
