Edzz
8:54pm, August 24, 2003
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[Delete] | Normally, a doctor that has a patient die sometimes says "I lost one on the table today." I guess this one said the opposite?
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'Dead' Vietnamese man revives after night in morgue
By Reuters, 8/23/2003
HANOI, Vietnam -- An elderly Vietnamese man thought to have died in a hospital revived after spending the night in the morgue, state media and a doctor said Friday.
Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue on the night of Aug. 15 but was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral, the Vietnam News daily said.
"I was shocked and frightened when I saw the blanket that covered my father moving," Quan's daughter was quoted as saying. "When the morgue's officials pulled back the blanket, my father's eyes moved, brightening with joy."
A doctor at the Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital, where Quan had been admitted after complaining of chest pain, told Reuters: "He is now still in the emergency section."
After Quan's heart failed and he was declared dead, the man was placed in the morgue where he was laid for seven hours among corpses.
The doctor declined to elaborate on the case but said investigations into the incident were under way.
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So I'm thinking... NO WISE CRACKS NOW... Medical Examiner has to be the easiest of all the medical professions. Really, how badly could you screw-up? The person's already dead, right? What's the worst that can happen, you DO get a pulse? I mean, really. Talk about a low pressure job, right?
Sure, it's a job that few could (no pun intended) stomach, but hey... it pays well, the place is quiet. You never haveta worry about washing windows cuz you work in the basement. Nobody's demanding your immediate attention. You get to drive a pretty nice car around picking up people all the time. And you're on the 6PM news a lot, too.
OK, it's probably gonna hamper your dating a bit, unless you wanna meet some kingda offbeat people. BUT... if you do meet a nice openminded person that's accepting of your job, he/she will probably overlook the fact that you have 7 toes on one foot and 5 thumbs on one hand. So you have that going for you.
I had a cousin with 5 thumbs on one hand. He wasn't very good with intricate stuff, but man could he deal a deck of cards.
But anyway, I was just thinking that it'd be cool being a Quincy dude... fighting with an inept boss while doing the kind of work like they do on CSI. Right?
I thought so.
Ed :O) |
