When I read this I had to do a facepalm. Bakersfield is quickly becoming the Florida of California.
I laughed.
I saw the headline about “Lover Died…” and figured this was some lovestruck dumb teenage kid. Then I saw she was a 50 year old doctor.
I wonder how many patients she’s killed? This is absolutely Darwin material.
Did she have kids already?
Well, that’s a leap. People make stupid choices in their personal lives all the time- this doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s killed anybody at work.
If I were one of her patients I would go get a second opinion of anything she ever told me. Personally, I think that level of stupid can’t be “narrow” – that’s not to say I have any evidence to back this up.
I knew what the thread was going to be about by the title. Heard this on the radio a couple days ago and can’t think about it for a second without shuddering. That’s gotta be up there among the worst ways to go. I imagined her thinking fuck this relationship. I don’t care. I was dumb to take it this far. It doesn’t matter. I just want out of here.
Here in Minneapolis, a burglar tried to break into Uncle Hugo’s bookstore on Christmas night, and got stuck in the chimney. (What he expected to steal from a small, specialized bookstore I can’t see.) The owner happened to come into the store on Christmas Day to get ready for an after-Xmas sale, heard him calling from somewhere, and called 911. It took the authorities several hours to locate him & get him out, destroying the chimney in the process.
It was Minneapolis in winter, and the burglar was half-naked in the chimney (he had stripped off all but his pants to fit). Had the owner not come in on Christmas Day & heard him, he would have frozen to death. He spent several days in the hospital, then after a trial, 15 months back in prison.
The store owner, meanwhile, was stuck with the cost of repairing the destroyed chimney, ceiling, etc. Estimated at about $6.500 for replacement, or $1,400 for just roof & ceiling repair. He had to pay that out of his pocket, thanks to the burglar whose life he saved. He filed a claim against the burglar, but likely never collected anything. And the Mpls Star-Tribune ran a very inaccurate story implying that the store was damaged & without heat, which pretty much kept customers away from their after-Xmas sale. (The TV stations (even Fox and the BBC) had got the story right.) So the store was really hurt by this, even though the burglar never got into the store.
Details from the owner are here.
This really bothered me for a few days. I imagined being way down a chimney with darkness extending far above. Then I pictured slowly roasting in the sun, with hours and hours to think about my stupid decision.
Basically that would be the worst death imaginable. Thankly, didn’t she die rather shortly because her chest was not able to expand and allow her to breath? Still horrible, but hopefully not prolonged.
Someone on the video says that a neighbor thought she heard soft cries for help the next day.
I have met a lot of seemingly smart people who did extremely stupid or crazy things in their romantic relationships. It also sounds like alcohol was a factor (as is the case with so many acts of stupidity).
How did this go this long without proper acknowledgement?
[Doffs cap to Finagle]
Seriously though. If you heard a story about someone who died of an improperly diagnosed illness, and you further heard that their doctor had died in this way; would you not ask why the heck they hadn’t bothered to get a second opinion?
In fact, I would think that her medical insurance company would be demanding that all patients be referred for immediate review by an alternate doctor.
Does it necessarily mean that her professional opinions have been off? No. Is it a good indicator that they may have been? Absolutely.