Monday, August 6, 2012

The North Carolina State Medical Examiners Office:

The North Carolina Medical Examiner System is a network of over 600 medical doctors throughout North Carolina who voluntarily devote their time, energy, and medical expertise to see that deaths of a suspicious, unusual or unnatural nature are adequately investigated.
I am back to where it all started in November of last year. Here is something from the NC State Medical Examiners  website:
2. The following types of deaths in North Carolina are to be reported to a medical examiner:
  • Sudden unexpected deaths not reasonably related to known previous disease.

  • An example of this, would be like if someone was in a facility for strengthening and occupational rehab. Then the day they were supposed to be discharged from the facility, (Hendersonville Health and Rehab) their heart just stops beating. The patient was not in the facility for heart related issues. And they had reached their goals for rehab.  They were assisted to the bathroom about fifteen before they were found slumped over, without a heartbeat. Nothing was mentioned about the patient showing any sign of heart problems.
    I'm no medical professional, but to me that sounds like a sudden unexpected death not reasonably related to known previous disease. In which case, the medical examiner should have been notified. These are their rules, not something I made up to fit any situation.
    Well after reading their rules, I decided to call them. I spoke to the receptionist, who transferred me to someone named Judy. Judy proceeded to inform me that she couldn't help me. She didn't know why they didn't do what they were supposed to do. Then Judy told me I would have to contact the doctors, or the hospital to get any kind of answer. It didn't seem to concern her at all that they didn't follow proper procedures! It concerns me, and should concern anyone.
    Lets just say one day I die. It seems relatively obvious to the emergency room doctor that I died from a heart attack. However, someone in my life had figured out that certain drugs could produce the same symptoms as a heart attack. Lets just say that same person, wanted me out of the picture for some reason. I would hope that the fact that I have no previous heart disease, would at least make them draw a blood sample and possibly find traces of that drug!

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