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Vancouver hospital asked wrong family whether to pull the plug on patient
KGW ^ | Feb. 21, 2024 | Kyle Iboshi

Posted on 02/22/2024 11:32:27 AM PST by Rio

In a terrible case of mistaken identity, KGW found PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver allowed a family to pull the plug on the wrong man.

The family of a Vancouver man faced a heavy decision after an unexpected phone call in the middle of the night. Their loved one was on life support, hospital staff told them, after a horrible choking incident.

“They said, 'He’s basically brain dead,'” explained Debbie Danielson. “'Do you want us to keep him on life support or do you want to pull the plug?'”

After a brief discussion with her husband, Danielson told the hospital to pull her 60-year-old brother off life support.

“Michael A. Beehler, 60, Vancouver, died August 9, 2021,” read a death notice posted in The Columbian newspaper.

Then came the phone call no one expected. It was her brother, Mike. He wasn’t dead. Instead, he was very much alive.

(Excerpt) Read more at kgw.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: washington
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Crazy but true.
1 posted on 02/22/2024 11:32:27 AM PST by Rio
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To: Rio

I should add that this is Vancouver, WA... Across the river from Portland, OR.


2 posted on 02/22/2024 11:33:28 AM PST by Rio
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To: Rio

“allowed a family to pull the plug on the wrong man”

No.....try again.


3 posted on 02/22/2024 11:34:44 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Rio

I’m surprised that a hospital would even take a verbal directive over the phone. This must have been in Canada or something. A US hospital would be having you sign a phone book’s worth of consent forms.


4 posted on 02/22/2024 11:34:55 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Rio

don’t ‘die’ in Canada. you may really have to die.


5 posted on 02/22/2024 11:35:35 AM PST by dadfly
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To: Rio

Canada kills people for being depressed


6 posted on 02/22/2024 11:38:16 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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“ I should add that this is Vancouver, WA... Across the river from Portland, OR.”

They don’t want people to have to travel to Canada for suicide


7 posted on 02/22/2024 11:40:05 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Rio

Yes it’s just on the other side of the bridge


8 posted on 02/22/2024 11:40:37 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Rio

Sure it was an accident.

I have so little trust in the government/medical complex these days that I could see them doing this as a way of getting an extra death sneaked in once in a while.


9 posted on 02/22/2024 11:41:22 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Rio

Heathcare was small business then came Medicare in 1965 and the rest is history.


10 posted on 02/22/2024 11:43:01 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Rio

Oops.No malpractice.


11 posted on 02/22/2024 11:43:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Rio

That’s not a decision I would make on a call in the middle of the night. You need to talk to someone in person.


12 posted on 02/22/2024 11:45:47 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Rio

A few years back, Calgary, (with one of Canada’s top hospitals) sent a woman to give birth to quintuplets in little podunk Great Falls, Montana, because they could not cope with the expected complications.


13 posted on 02/22/2024 11:46:23 AM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Rio

How does the brother feel about her now?


14 posted on 02/22/2024 11:46:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Rio

That is sickening...


15 posted on 02/22/2024 11:46:50 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Rio

If Michael Beehler should happen to become extremely depressed because of his misidentification you just know the same Canadian healthcare system will offer him free suicide to ease his troubles.

Oh, I’m sorry. Medical Assistance in Dying, I meant. Those words make it nice or something.


16 posted on 02/22/2024 11:49:57 AM PST by servo1969
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Oh, my mistake. This wasn't Canada. So, no free government suicide for him, then.






Yet.
17 posted on 02/22/2024 11:51:13 AM PST by servo1969
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To: Rio

Wouldn’t you want to go see him with your own eyes? Didn’t somebody have to identify him before they offed him?

I actually know someone who was called to see a relative in the ICU in critical care. When he got there, it wasn’t his relative! They called the wrong person. So luckily, for that family, they were able to track them down.

I know mistakes happen, but this sort of thing is very, very wrong.


18 posted on 02/22/2024 11:52:59 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Gaffer

It happened in the U.S. They can’t wait to pull the plug.


19 posted on 02/22/2024 11:53:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

Do you have a citation?


20 posted on 02/22/2024 11:54:22 AM PST by nickcarraway
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