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[SlickWilly223]

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For those of you who don't know, DeHuff played bride to be in the movie. Best part of the whole movie was when Greg spiked the volleyball onto her face and broke her nose.

What a shame, getting misdiagnosed like that. Good looking lady, too.

 

[Doth Togo]

Another reason why LA sucks.

 

[neonglow]

An unfortunate sequence of events.

 

[Groder Mullet]

Heads should roll at that hospital. That is inexcusable.

 

[gigapower]

Woah, my sister in law went to high school with her.

 

[miyuru]

Shit, she was only 30 :-\

I hate reading news like this, she looks so happy in the pic too

 

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Meet the Parents marked DeHuff's feature-film debut. She played Deborah Byrnes, the sister whose wedding prompts Gaylord "Greg" Focker's (Ben Stiller) visit to girlfriend Pam Byrne's (Polo) childhood home to attend the ceremony and, as suggested by the title, meet the parents. Hilarity ensues.

a) I didn't know people actually wrote that...

b) ...especially in a death story.

 

[john tv]

That's so horrible...

How can people be so incompetent... that hospital should be shut down.

 

[Asbel]

Man, this could have been anyone at a place we all trust.

 

[ohamsie]

I want to know how a mistake like that can be made twice.

 

[Espio]

30 :-/

 

[Zaptruder]

That's so horrible...

How can people be so incompetent... that hospital should be shut down.

Yes, because shutting down that hospital would save so many more lives.

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Yes, because shutting down that hospital would save so many more lives.

In johntv's defense, the hospital is named "David Berkowitz Memorial," probably a good indication of their quality.

 

[SyNapSe]

 

[BigGreenMat]

That's so horrible...

How can people be so incompetent... that hospital should be shut down.

It has nothing to do with being incompetent. Do you know how similar symptoms of just about everything is and how hard a diagnosis can be let alone figuring out how to treat somone? It isn't a cookie-cutter business. Stuff goes either unnoticed or isn't noticeable and just because you notice it doesn't mean you can do jack about it. About the only thing we have any control over to some degree is bacterial infections. The rest we pretty much leave up to the body to take care of. People die of pneumonia. It happens. There isn't much you can do other than hope a person gets better.

 

[Matlock]

What happened, did she take a volleyball to the face?

 

[Azih]

BigGreenMat is the one who misdiangosed her! Go back to med school mang!

 

[xsarien]

It has nothing to do with being incompetent. Do you know how similar symptoms of just about everything is and how hard a diagnosis can be let alone figuring out how to treat somone? It isn't a cookie-cutter business. Stuff goes either unnoticed or isn't noticeable and just because you notice it doesn't mean you can do jack about it. About the only thing we have any control over to some degree is bacterial infections. The rest we pretty much leave up to the body to take care of. People die of pneumonia. It happens. There isn't much you can do other than hope a person gets better.

I think - if she had pneumonia - clue #1 to the doctors would've been her spitting up mucus like a dock worker. You know, at least listen to her lungs or something. I've dealt with the big P enough times in my life to know that while it has "common" symptoms, it's easily recognizable.

But she shouldn't have gone to the ER, if your arm isn't severed, you're not likely to get any attention for a few hours. A normal, everyday doctor would've taken better care of her.

I also agree that the hospital needs to be chastized harshly for this. People can die of a lot of things; its whether or not it's easily prevented, and in the case of pneumonia, an otherwise healthy person should NOT have to die from it.

 

[Tuvoc]

She died on February 16th. Why is this story surfacing now? Almost a month later.

 

[peedi]

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Good looking lady, too.

How tacky.