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[-] avg@lemmy.zip 141 points 1 month ago

An alternative headline is that a woman was nearly burned alive after being misdiagnosed.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago

If you read the article, it seems she was properly assessed as having no brain stem activity. Could be a cover up, who knows.
And they wouldn't actually cremate her until there was no pulse. Unless they covered that up too!

I mean obviously we only have the accounts of the article, but they claim her vitals were low, her Glasgow Coma Scale had dropped to a 3, and multiple tests showed she had neurotoxins in her system. It sounds like there are records to back up the claims being made. Obviously someone could always be lying, but it sounds like they've got the right info backing it up here.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

Well, obviously, she was not properly assessed.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, yeah. But did they actually do anything wrong, anything that any other doctors would have done?

[-] pentastarm@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a X-file

[-] paris 31 points 1 month ago

Reading the article, it doesn't seem like a misdiagnosis. She showed all the signs of brain death and her chances of living were basically zero. Her family decided to start making preparations. When her body was being delivered back in an ambulance, they hit a pothole that jolted her brain back into action. Genuinely crazy medical story, but with 8,000,000,000 people on earth, this happening to at least one person is all but guaranteed.

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