WTF? Caught fire?

[cornfish]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7545053/

How in the hell does something like this happen? I understand there are combustibles and Oxygen and such being used, but to just catch fire?

Not to mention the fact that they are sure he died of heart failure and the fact that his body actually caught fire had nothing to do with it. I'm never going to the hospital again

 

[HumorMe]

Gives new meaning to the song..."Come on baby light my fire."

 

[Zebo]

I saw a show on TLC (I think) about all the stuff left in people's bodies during surgery. Mostly sponges, but rib spreaders, forceps, all kinds of shit.

And they said it happens "all the time".

Yikes......

 

[coverguy]

I saw a show on TLC (I think) about all the stuff left in people's bodies during surgery. Mostly sponges, but rib spreaders, forceps, all kinds of shit.

And they said it happens "all the time".

Yikes......

scary shit

 

[bran987]

SEATTLE - Seattle police have launched an investigation to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.

The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument.

The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.

Caplan said fires are known to occur in operating rooms although they were extremely rare.

The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.

Caplan strongly disputed its contents. "That letter is factually incorrect," he said.

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WTF