In the event of my having a medical emergency, please keep me away from
Virginia Mason Medical Center at all costs. After mistakenly injecting a woman with toxic antiseptic solution back in 2003, a mistake that ultimately led to her premature demise, Virgina Mason is now faced with an investigation into the
death of a man who burst into flames on one of hospital's emergency room tables.
Dr. Robert Caplan, the hospital's unfortunate medical director, stated that the roast was actually "a very small fire," and that it had nothing to do with the man's death, which Caplan attributed to problems involving the heart. While this is no doubt true, I wonder whether the smell of one's own burning flesh might not induce a heart attack in even those with the most stalwart constitutions.
