This is why I'm not an organ doner.

[JaggedEdge]

Oddly Enough | Africa - Reuters.com

"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.

JaggedEdge Reviewed by JaggedEdge on 09-17-2007. This is why I'm not an organ doner. Oddly Enough | Africa - Reuters.com Rating: 5

[ghosty]

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

[Big Haze]

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...

[JaggedEdge]

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

*shutters*

[AZ.HI.AZ.I.AM.]

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

[make it legal]

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

[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...

[WeedyBoyWonder]

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

[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

[slipknotpsycho]

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...

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: