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from:msnbc.comMexican team bobbles heart headed for transplant
Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:11 PM EST (msnbc.com)
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Butterfingers.
It was an accident. Have a heart...oops!
He stumbled; heart tumbled.
A better cooler with a *latch* is in order.
All part of the gory, grisly transplant trade. Many happy returns.
No thanks, but have a nice day.
What a heart breaker.
The recipient is now nicknamed "Gravel Heart" Rodriguez.
Cleveland Browns fans can relate to that patient... ;)
I would venture to guess the poor medic was HEART BROKEN!
These comments are heartless!!
So was the recipient.......................
Jarhead In WI
I would venture to guess the poor medic was HEART BROKEN!
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Not really, I heard he hangs out at zone.com :)
Butter fingers and gravel heart
Comon guys, this job must be really...heart*
If this happened in tennessee it would be a country song by now......."you broke my heart....dropped it in the street, and I'll never be...back on my feet"......
patient and doctor need to have a " heart-to-heart. "
Well, what did you expect. It is Mexico....
...."wow"... a mexican screwing up something else...
What a surprise......
Did I mention that I brought my lunch to work with me today...?
In America there would already be 18 lawsuits against the medic, the hospital, the pilot, the medics shoes manufacturer, the cooler manufacturer, and the company who built the helipad.
I think he means to swap out the heart for something that can take an ubercharge.
Ac-1213193,
I'm not sure what you meant by your comment. Did you mean something derogatory?
Azrancher,
... and it would be called "You Drop Kicked My heart South of the Border".
Does the 5 second rule apply?
Jesus was busy preventing a Tebow fumble, so the medic had to.
IDIOT is the only explanation
Or maybe just "human"?
It is a noble deed to pour your heart out for someone.
Idiot? Right. In America, we just amputate the wrong leg.
It is not as noble to pour someone else's heart out.
my heartfelt apologies for the insensitive comments on here.
Morton, your heart has grown cold.
dobi-1146228, presumably you've never stumbled and dropped anything. Too bad we can't all be as great as you.
'fast precision maneuver'
Yeah, grandma always warned us kids that showing off will only get you hurt. Guess she was right!
Aztec culture. No disrespect. Mexicans are returning to their Aztec heritage. Aztecs used to decapitate during their sacrifice.
Actually, Aztec priests cut the still beating hearts out of sacrificial victims, whose bodies were then thrown down the temple steps. They weren't decapitated.
Huh?
Because he accidentally dropped a heart? Where the f uck is that logic from.
tom111
Based on your comment, I see you're returning to your KKK heritage.
this could have happened to any one of us. i'm sure the person responsible feels like @!$%#. cut him/her some slack.
Yes, let's have a little heart.
I don't know about that, I've never carried a heart in a cooler.
So you're saying you don't love beer?
Har. The best so far. Beer jokes, gotta love 'em, plenty of heart.
Are they sure it wasn't being rushed to a dinner with a side of beans and rice, and some tortilla's, and a fine Cervesa fffffffffffffffuh!
If you give your heart to Speedy Gonzales, it is likely to be broken.
How do you mend a broken heart?
Five second rule! I wonder if the guy picked the thing up and looked all around to see if anyone noticed?
That was my first thought as well.....too bad you beat me to it!
He almost had to make it the 10 second rule.
nice Waiting reference. Funny movie!
I was also thinking "5 second rule." I didn't realize this applied to fumbled body parts, as well. :) Good to know.
I'm sure they can just take one out of the next person who is killed.
They are really easy to get to down there. Just reach through their neck....and there it is!
All they have to do is wait around Cuidad Juarez and they'll have a buffet of corpses to choose organs from.
Or...... we can wait for the next american to O.D..... o no,,, those hearts could be more worthless in death than in life...
Guar78
You're right with Americans being obese and overmedicated, which can't make for a healthy heart.
Wondering if they bothered to wash the asphalt & particulates from it before they duct taped it in someone's chest
duct tape? i'm thinking chewing gum.
Naaa - nail gun and super glue.
Known as the 'MacGyver' method? :)
If this happened in the US, they'd probably give a dead person the transplant.
Not duct tape; they use 'ticker' tape.
I wonder if theres a warranty on that heart...
How long is it taking for them to get throught to the insurance company to see if the extra parts are covered, bet they are still on hold.
This give a new slant to the expression the he has a broken heart!
More like a bruised heart!
They thought it was a futbol.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaalllllll!!!
Give it to Cheney.
it would be Cheney's first real heart....
Vader needs no heart.
I’m not surprised at all! my grandmothers neighbor went in for a left knee surgery just to wake up to a right knee operated!! i feel so bad for this poor lady!! unfortunally being a third world country and being poor on top of it there is not much you can do!
Hate to say it, but this happens in our fabulous country too. When I had knee surgery, I had a big smiley face on my left knee (the correct knee) and a big red X on the right. This was a top-rated dr. in NYC, not a quack. He was just so paranoid of being human and making a mistake. I'd rather have marker all over my knee than have the kneecap in the wrong knee shaved down. OOOOCH! (sorry for your grandmother's friend though).
That happened in Tampa. (Wrong leg amputated). Now every place doing surgery has to have some method to identify the correct surgical site. We write "yes".
That said, the smiley face cracks me up.
Take care.
One of our friends had shoulder surgery and they wrote a huge "NO!" on the shoulder not to be messed with. Scary that that's what it takes to get it right. :)
There was an incident in New Orleans several years ago where the wrong leg was amputated. This person had to go back in surgery and have the bad one removed. Needless to say the law suits started flying. The judge ruled that the patient received "Nothing" !!! Not one penny !! Said he didn't have a leg to stand on !!!! Drum roll please !!!!!!
LOL I'm just saying.... WOW!
5 second rule, Fla Pat, you just made my day LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fortunately a nearby squigee tech rinsed it off and freshened it up with a chicklet. Ole !!
Why all the racist jokes toward Mexicans?
where? if you can't laugh at yourself...
i meant that fortunately a Snowbirding squigee guy, from NYC, rinsed it off and freshened it up with a mentos. Now can i get a big smile and a thumbs up? What?!.. not even for subliminal product placement? Simmer down N S Laffy Guy, simmer down.
I guess the recipient will be thankful a truck didn't go buy at the worst time and splat.
Or happen on the "bypass".
Why would you chose to publish this story when things like this happen in the U.S. all the time? Sounds like another case of gratuitous Mexico-bashing that is all too frequent in the U.S. press.
I'm actually on the waiting list for organs and I've never ever heard of organs being dropped in the street "all the time" here in the US. I think you're just pulling stuff out of your ass so that you can complain about American and this article.
When?
David, you are an uneduated ASS. Name one time. I have been a paramedic in New Orleans for over 2 decades. Our service had a relationship with LOPA (Lousiana Organ Procurement Agency) for years. Matter of fact we used to deliver back and forth to Honduras among other counties. No one has ever dumped a heart on the street in the U.S. Idiot. The movie "Rat Race" when the "medic" (and I use that term loosely) was chasing Mr.Bean around to steal his heart after he dropped one he was transporting was run over, wasn't a true story. Just sayin...
I dont know what the policies would be for transportation of a human heart here in the U.S. or even if there are any.....but I have seen them brought into hospitals via airflights and the heart was kept in a soft sided cooler which was secured inside of a plastic larger cooler which was duct taped shut like an evidence bag.
The hand off was made and the cooler was taken to just outside of the O.R. where it was cut open and the smaller uncontaminated bag was carried into the O.R. where it was opened and the hear extracted by the surgeons.
If dropped in route you could not make it fall out. From the photo here it looks like a cardboard box was used if its accurate.
All I can say is damn. An American never dropped a heart?!? I find that hard to believe. When one of our planes or helicopters crash carrying a heart isn't it dropped then?
Makes me wonder about my new kidney now.
Where theres smoke, theres probably fire..
I bet they just hosed it off and used a bit more spackle after installing, er uh implanting it.
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Nothin' a lil spitshine won't clean.
Coleman could jump on that idea - a Superbowl commercial.
Por favor.... NO MAS TEQUILA !!!! (sorry 'bout that...)
I don't believe that happened as stated!
Why? It sounds like a very human mistake. I have a hard time believing they USED the heart or that it worked, but I have no problem believing someone tripped and dropped what they were holding.
They didn't say from how high up it fell, or how far it went. It could still be just fine, besides, wasn't it in plastic?
buy a better cooler and people trip and fall it happens and i think if you needed an organ because you were about to die you would not care if it fell on the ground or who it was from black or white or brown or what god they believed in or if they were from what country ?????????/
Hey ... they were just all "pumped up" ... don't "beat" them down about this!