Railroad
Routinely Derailed
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</TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>SURREY, British Columbia — An elderly Canadian woman ended up in the morgue a bit too early.
The unnamed 87-year-old resident of a Surrey, British Columbia, extended-care facility, was sleeping deeply Saturday night when her roommate quietly died.
An ambulance driver came to pick up the dead woman, but forgot to check wristbands to make sure he had the right patient.
"The individual did not follow proper protocol by checking identification," Helen Carkner, spokesman for the local health authority, told The Province newspaper of Vancouver, B.C. "For whatever reason, he took the wrong person."
The healthier roommate slept on as she was placed on a gurney, put in an ambulance and driven to Surrey Memorial Hospital (search) across the street.
She woke up, very much alive, lying on the gurney in a hallway in the hospital's morgue.
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Who Needs I.D.?
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=storytext style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px">Thursday, March 24, 2005
</TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>SURREY, British Columbia — An elderly Canadian woman ended up in the morgue a bit too early.
The unnamed 87-year-old resident of a Surrey, British Columbia, extended-care facility, was sleeping deeply Saturday night when her roommate quietly died.
An ambulance driver came to pick up the dead woman, but forgot to check wristbands to make sure he had the right patient.
"The individual did not follow proper protocol by checking identification," Helen Carkner, spokesman for the local health authority, told The Province newspaper of Vancouver, B.C. "For whatever reason, he took the wrong person."
The healthier roommate slept on as she was placed on a gurney, put in an ambulance and driven to Surrey Memorial Hospital (search) across the street.
She woke up, very much alive, lying on the gurney in a hallway in the hospital's morgue.
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