OK, now think of a story. The strangest situation that you can think can happen to you. I think waking up under an autopsy knife leads the list…
A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
“I woke up because the pain was unbearable,” Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband’s body only to find him moved into a corridor — and alive.
Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
[Reuters]
If you are thinking this could never happen in the United States think again. Just do a brief search on Hospital Mistake and you’d have a long listing of stories and cases where mistakes happen.
There used to be a story that said that Doctors stuck a needle in the foot of people to confirm they are dead. But I assume now a days they check for heart beat and such. Perhaps in this situation the doctors used their touch/eyes/ears and that failed them.
Tags: Interesting, News, Oddities, Weird
