71 year old MAN pregnant
29th September 2008 | Blog Posts | 0 comments
…or so he was told by the hospital. I first found the article this morning on Perez Hilton but you can also find the news article on Yahoo News. When I first read this article I thought it would either turn out to be some sort of joke or a serious case (i.e. pregnant man). It is kind of a mix of both. It happened in Curry General Hospital in Portland, Oreland on Friday September 26. A 71 year old man – a grandfather – went to the hopital due to some abdominal pain and upon his release he was given some pain killers along with his discharge papers. What did his discharge papers say? The line read as follows: “Based on your visit today, we know you are pregnant”.
O.O
I can imagine the reaction he must have went through in that first minute after reading the paper [ - I thought I was a man! - ]. Haha. But in all seriousness how can this happen?! I mean I understand it being a mis-stroke on the keyboard and making a mistake, but the thing that bothers me is the fact admins don’t check the printed document BEFORE giving it to the patient. You read this article and can’t help but start laughing at the stupidness of it all but at the same time you have to think of the possibles this could have had.