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Heart transport mishap leaves Mexico ridiculing red-faced medics
Guardian ^
| 1/12/12
| Haroon Siddique
Posted on 01/12/2012 1:12:37 PM PST by LibWhacker
Paramedics drop organ in front of photographers after it was rushed to hospital by police helicopter for transplant
It was a heart-stopping moment – or nearly so: rushing from a helicopter, two Mexican medics dropped a human heart being ferried to hospital for a transplant. And to compound their embarrassment, press photographers were there to capture the mishap.
Thankfully, the transplant was carried out successfully, although that has not stopped the medics being widely ridiculed online.
The heart was being transported by a police helicopter to a hospital in Mexico City on Wednesday, in what police described as "a rapid, precision manoeuvre" after being flown in from León, in the state of Guanajuato.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: drop; heart; mexico; napl; transplant
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posted on
01/12/2012 1:15:57 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: LibWhacker
5 Second rule? It’s still good...It’s still good...LOL!
To: LibWhacker
5 Second rule? It’s still good...It’s still good...LOL!
To: thackney
Looks like something that would happen in one of those Airplane! movies. LOL
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posted on
01/12/2012 1:37:17 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: LibWhacker
That's nothing. You should have seen the surgeon.
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posted on
01/12/2012 1:45:05 PM PST
by
edpc
(Wilby 2012)
To: thackney
At least some starving dog didn’t run off with it to eat.
To: edpc
Or this guy
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posted on
01/12/2012 1:54:07 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: LibWhacker
"La Raza hospital"?
Isn't that racist?
9
posted on
01/12/2012 2:08:53 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: thackney
Song title?
“She stole my heart away, then she dropped it.”
Better than “You broke my poor heart, baby, you really laid that sucker flat.”
From that photo maybe it’s a new way to play hacky-sack.
10
posted on
01/12/2012 2:31:40 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
To: LibWhacker
Weird Al did that in his music video, “Like A Surgeon”!
11
posted on
01/12/2012 2:58:56 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: LibWhacker
Medical mistakes happen all the time with transplants. It's no big deal.
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posted on
01/12/2012 3:59:15 PM PST
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
01/12/2012 4:24:21 PM PST
by
The SISU kid
(I feel really homesick all the time & so do all the other aliens.....)
To: The SISU kid; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
01/12/2012 11:01:04 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows; libwacker
Those Mexican docs can fix anything.
15
posted on
01/13/2012 6:16:40 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(*Pray for whatever passes for America these days* Amen. ~ ScottinVA)
To: Slings and Arrows
At least they didn’t leave it in San Francisco.
To: Daffynition; Larry Lucido
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posted on
01/13/2012 9:48:54 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Daffynition; Larry Lucido
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posted on
01/13/2012 9:49:17 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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