Thursday, January 12, 2006

Man's vigil at wrong hospital bed

Given that this was about life and death, I'm inclined to not laugh quite as much. But the fact is, the guy didn't recognise his own mother in bed, and sat at the wrong bed waiting for her to die (when his real mother was in the next room already dead). Pretty astonishing really - he only found out when his daughter came in and told him that wasn't her Grandmother....

I've no idea how a hospital can be blamed for something like this - if you can't even recognise your own mother, surely it's your own fault, and you can't blame the doctors and nurses....

BBC NEWS | England | Southern Counties | Man's vigil at wrong hospital bed