Dr. Decapitated By Faulty Elevator At St Joseph Hospital

Houston Chronicle ^ | August 17, 2003 | Peggy O'Hare

[Wilhelm Tell]

Having said that, it sure appears that the armies of Satan are on the march right now. So much of what is happening in the world, both the big events and the strange little ones like this, bears the hallmark of the prince of lies.

I'm not into theology that has every problem tied up in neat answers, either. I will probably be accused of being an athiest troll, but I have to wonder where God is when horrible, stupid things like this happen. Does God have a plan for everything? Did He just one day decide, "I think I'll decapitate a missionary today." I think it is better to admit that there is no answer than to try to weave some rationalization that makes God look like a child who tortures animals. Once one has lived long enough and has been touched by enough tragedies, easy, painless answers become impossible.

I can imagine the missionary getting to heaven and asking the Lord, "I was going to help a lot of people, so why did You allow me to be killed in a stupid accident?" The Lord might answer, " I see you are from Stupid Planet. Things like that happen on Stupid Planet all the time. I had nothing to do with it -- Stupid Planet's warranty expired a long time ago. I know that Stupid Planet is under bad management, but every time I go down there to try and fix things, I get kicked out. (God shrugs.) What can One do?"

We live in a beautiful world -- and it wants to kill you!

[Consort]

I will probably be accused of being an athiest troll, but I have to wonder where God is when horrible, stupid things like this happen.

The Creator made us in his image and, therefore, we are also creators...on a lesser scale. As such, we create what we experience: the good, the bad, and everything in between. That's why it's flawed...we are learning. If God created it, it would be flawless.

[RichInOC]

Actually, the doctor in "Omen II" got sliced in half.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It's a jungle out there
Disorder and confusion everywhere
No one seems to care
Well I do
Hey, who's in charge here?


It's a jungle out there
Poison in the very air we breathe
Do you know what's in the water that you drink?
Well I do, and it's amazing


People think I'm crazy, 'cause I worry all the time
If you paid attention, you'd be worried too
You better pay attention
Or this world we love so much might just kill you


I could be wrong now, but I don't think so
It's a jungle out there

It's a Jungle Out There! (By Randy Newman)

[RandallFlagg]

Schweet! I was waiting for someone to catch that!

Even showed the guts and everything!

[Kevin Curry]

Teenager died after stairs fall

Carlow Nationalist, 12/17/1999.

THE TRAGIC death last week, following an accident at her home, of 15-year-old schoolgirl Dymphna Byrne of Coolrus, Clonegal, numbed and shocked the entire east Carlow, south Wicklow and north Wexford areas.

Dymphna, a Junior Certificate student at Coláiste Bhride Vocational College, Carnew, was about to leave home for school. It is understood she was going upstairs when she fell and struck her head.

Dymphna was removed to Naas County Hospital and was later transferred to Beaumont Hospital, where she was placed on a life-support machine. She died the following evening . . . .

[arasina]

Where is the money going? Could it be illegal alien useage of the hospital system is causing a financial pinch?

Could it also be that it's being spent on advertising the hospital on television, in newspapers and on radio?

I remember a time when hospitals didn't advertise as there was no need to do so. It seems to me I'm always seeing commercials for hospitals now as well as the constant drug pushing (prescription drugs).

[arasina]

How bizarre! This has been a week of freaky death stories.

Man Killed When Hair Is Caught In Fairgrounds Ride

[ffusco]

Jackal hemoglobin?

[UncleDudley]

Could it also be that it's being spent on advertising the hospital on television, in newspapers and on radio?

Advertising in the long run, usually is productive in paying for itself and generating new income. Hospital advertising has been going on for years, so I assume it's working.

That leaves me asking about the negative impact of illegal aliens on the financial well being of a Houston hospital. Houston may be the illegal alien capital of Texas.

[rabidralph]

Yeah, I saw that in Resident Evil.

The woman was not injured, but was later taken to the emergency room because she was in shock,

Understatement of the Millennium.

[rabidralph]

Yes, truly horrible. My first thought was that this was in a third world country. But Houston?

To match our Third World electrical grid, dontcha know?

[b9]

I believe strongly in intuition, and have been protected on many occasions. I can't cite a single incident of something gone wrong, where I wasn't 'warned' in some way first but blew it off. The older I get, the better I listen. I refuse to believe we're sitting ducks.

[demkicker]

I shouldn't snicker, but this was a pretty funny retort to DavidBrown's post.

[July 4th]

Something like this happened about 10 years ago in an apartment building in NYC. A woman got her heel caught in the space between the floor and the elevator, and a man bent over to help her free it. She got her foot out, and for some unexplained reason the elevator car went up without the doors closing first. The people in the elevator rode up 5 floors with the guys head in the car.

[FreePaul]

Didn't happen in the medical center or a hospital. It was a downtown office building/underground parking garage. It was a pretty gruesome thing though.

[neb52]

Part of it at some hospitals such as the one I work at, but mostly to spend on pointless stuff. Such has pep-rally customer service classes(to increase morale and to make employees more loyal to the company(even though they do the opposite)), Cameras so management can watch their employees, New PCs when the previous ones were bought just a year or two ago, Purchasing cheap equipment that cost more down the road and over payed supervisors and managers that really don't do anything other than look over your shoulder ever 5 minutes and make sure you are in compliance with all 100s of things you are suppose to be in compliance with(this doesn't include leagal compliances). Baylor has become rather large, thus has a big bureaucracy prevails soking up a lot of money. Also to many chiefs per indians.

Yes patients not paying their bills is a big problem, but that is the case for most hospitals. Which is partly the reason for numerous fedral and state grants. When I say Baylor are penny pinchers, I don't mean they don't spend money. They don't spend it corrrectly. Most of the medical equipment is old and the staff that uses it are poorly trained. Training opportunities are slim and primarily used for Managers and Directors. Baylor is one of the worst in pay compared to the other local hospitals and allows no overtime, what so ever. Internal lawsuits do to bad policies also cost millions of dollars as well. A lot of problems that will not be resolved unless their is a total change over in the executive office with a new trusting and non paranoid work environment. As you can guess this causing low morale and high turn over. Course if you ask Baylor about the high turn over, they are quick to insert Bagdad Bob in to say there is no turn over, we fixed that long time ago. Most people here have worked only 6 months to a year than leave. There are some people who have lack of ambition who have been here 10-15-20 years. but they are becoming fewer.

I know that a lot of big corporations are like this, but they are not in the business of saving the dieing or curing the sick. They also are not Non-Profit companies that don't have to show if they losing money or gaining money. Thus no accountablility for the executives.

[demkicker]

Thanks for the correction.