Burninate the heart patients....
Apr. 16th, 2005 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSeattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.
The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.
The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.
Caplan strongly disputed its contents. "That letter is factually incorrect," he said.
The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.
The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.
Caplan strongly disputed its contents. "That letter is factually incorrect," he said.
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Date: 2005-04-17 01:23 am (UTC)The official word on the radio yesterday was that Caplan doubted the memo's origin.
I have no idea one way or the other.
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Date: 2005-04-17 03:41 am (UTC)