St Thérèse Hospital contacted the family of an 87-year-old patient to announce her death… In reality, she was not dead.
5:40 this Sunday. The family of Jeanine, a patient hospitalized for 15 days following an illness, received a call from the hospital. She died during the night.
The daughter of the lady could not believe it, relate our colleagues from SudPresse. She saw him a few hours earlier, and she still seemed healthy.
In shock, the family got organized. We had to go to the hospital. Arrived in front of the room, we asked everyone to wait. The roommate had to go out to let the family grieve. And there, before their eyes… Jeanine coming out, on her two legs.
After the amazement and incomprehension, come the explanations. It was not Jeanine who had died, but precisely her roommate.
The doctor on duty has… the wrong patient. An error he will explain. He came out of 72 hours of custody and was exhausted.
The family is of course happy to see Jeanine alive again, but all the same challenged by this error, caused by the fatigue of a doctor at the end of his tether.