This is why I'm not an organ doner.

Oddly Enough | Africa - Reuters.com

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"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife

Fri 14 Sep 2007, 17:02 GMT
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CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.
Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.

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:wtf:Whoa... better than being dead though for sure

Wow, that suck's, Imagine how much pain he was in..I would of woke up to! way better than bein dead. I wonder if he will sue...

I would certainly sue the hospital. Imagine if they had gotten further in the autopsy before he woke up...?

*shutters*

WOW!That's nuts.:wtf: But yea, better then being dead!

so they didn't think to check his pulse or breathing before pronouncing him dead? wtf???

yea, but notice this was in a south american hospital. Probably the kind where your family has to pay for your medicine and bring it to the hospital...Alot of other countrie's healthcare systems are kinda kooky...I doubt this would ever happen in the US...

Not quite the same as waking up to a cuppa and toast.

wait wait wait....they realize he's alive and decide to stitch up the incision on his face? since when is face-autopsying how its done? O.o

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Originally Posted by nurse maryjane

yea, but notice this was in a south american hospital. Probably the kind where your family has to pay for your medicine and bring it to the hospital...Alot of other countrie's healthcare systems are kinda kooky...I doubt this would ever happen in the US...

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yeah, it's not like hundreds if not thousands of people get out of surgery only to find out later the doctors left something in there or anything.... :wtf:

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Originally Posted by slipknotpsycho

yeah, it's not like hundreds if not thousands of people get out of surgery only to find out later the doctors left something in there or anything.... :wtf:

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LOL OK you got that one....but at least they wake up....and like the person a couple of posts up said...since when is starting at the face the norm in autopsies? If I had a choice tho....I'm sticking with a hospital in the US...overpriced, idiot doctors, stupid nurses, lazy aides and all....

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Originally Posted by BabySnookums

wait wait wait....they realize he's alive and decide to stitch up the incision on his face? since when is face-autopsying how its done? O.o

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Quite a good point....maybe they were cutting the skin away so they could cut the skull to access the brain?

wow gives me the shivers

there can me miracles, when you believe. lol

Ok, if he was bleeding that means his heart was beating (no shit), wouldn't that be one of the first things they check?

I dunno if they will sue the hospital or not. This is Venezuela not the U.S.