Mistaken identity: Vancouver hospital pulls plug on wrong patient
KGW found PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver allowed a family to pull the plug on the wrong man in a terrible case of mistaken identity.
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KGW found PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver allowed a family to pull the plug on the wrong man in a terrible case of mistaken identity.
In a terrible case of mistaken identity, KGW found PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver allowed a family to pull the plug on the wrong man.
Tyler Chase, 22, was living in transitional housing in Portland, Oregon, when the authorities misidentified a body as his and cremated it. The first sign...
Tyler Chase, 22, was living in transitional housing in Portland, Ore., when the authorities misidentified a body as his and cremated it.
The first sign that Tyler Chase got that he might be dead came at a convenience store. He had food stamps, but his benefit card didn’t work. The next sign was when he contacted Oregon state officials, who told him that a death certificate had been filed in his name. Then, weeks later, came the most disturbing development: An urn of ashes had been sent to his family, and it was sitting in his cousin’s closet. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times In reality, he was very much