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Hi fatalkiss. First let me apologise if I can't string a coherent sentence together, it's from no sleep. With regard to your question, the same thing happened to myself just like your experience with your mother. My father died at home from cancer in 1997. However, the difference here is that Murray, being a doctor, had the higher authority and wouldn't call the time of the death. So they were obliged to take them to the the hospital. So it's a question of authority here, as a doctor is a higher authority than an EMT
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginHi fatalkiss. First let me apologise if I can't string a coherent sentence together, it's from no sleep. With regard to your question, the same thing happened to myself just like your experience with your mother. My father died at home from cancer in 1997. However, the difference here is that Murray, being a doctor, had the higher authority and wouldn't call the time of the death. So they were obliged to take them to the the hospital. So it's a question of authority here, as a doctor is a higher authority than an EMTWe share a common bond in losing a loved one at home (my Mother in 1988) so I am unfortunately aware of the same normal protocols that this situation requires. I agree about the Dr. on scene being the overriding authority that allowed the transport to the hospital to take place...but as fatalkiss26 mentioned above...even then how/why would it take the hospital over 2 hours to make the final pronouncement (TOD)? From what I've read in statements...the hospital had already given the paramedics permission to "call it" in the field...so the transport to the hospital was merely a "courtesy" for further confirmation I would think. It's not like the clock can be restarted or backed up closer to the "fatal event" having begun...which would mean that there was a less likely chance for any resuscitation efforts to be successful. I don't care who you are (even MJ)...there are only so many things that are physically possible within certain time parameters for resuscitation to be accomplished in an effective manner. The "delay" made sense a bit when the rumor was that the patient was comatose...but the more I hear in details from the scene at Carolwood, it seems like the hours passing between arrival to the hospital and final pronouncement must have been needed for something else.
Richard A. Senneff said MJ was already dead when he arrived at the scene - but they tried to resuscitate him for 47 minutes without success .... almost an hour in the house to try and revive him