on July 10, 2013 in World News
Patient Wakes Up as Doctors Get Ready to Remove Organs
Patient Wakes Up as Doctors Get Ready to Remove Organs It was exactly midnight when Caroline Burns eerily opened her eyes and looked at the operating lights above her, shocking doctors who believed she was dead and were about to remove her organs and donate them to patients on the transplant waiting list. The Syracuse Post-Standard unearthed a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that chronicled the series of errors that led to the near-organ removal on a living patient at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, N.Y., in 2009. “The patient did not suffer… View Article
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