Drug overdose at Brigham and Women's
By adamg - Tue, 09/01/2009 - 9:50am.
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15 St. Francis St.
RoxburyUnited States
42° 20' 5.82" N, 71° 6' 16.7112" W
UPDATE: See comments below - an employee was found dead of an apparent drug overdose.
Boston Police tweet the homicide unit is on scene at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Or...
It's quite possible that a Dr./nurse/health care provider walked in front of a car on Francis st.
There is a very clear crosswalk with a functioning light and I've seen people nearly die by walking, head down, into traffic as they leave work.
...and changed intersection right-of-way
And it doesn't help that the right-of-way was changed recently at the corner of Francis St. and Binney St. The stop signs on Francis St. were removed, while those on Binney St. remained, which means that workers accustomed to cars stopping for them on Francis St. can get an unpleasant surprise.
or, more likely...
...that someone was seriously wounded by someone else and THEN taken to the hospital, and Homicide was called in?
Shocking concept...
2 problems with that
There are two problems with this supposition:
#1: If a victim is brought to the hospital, that doesn't make the hospital a possible crime scene.
#2: A trauma patient would not be at 15 Francis Street, which is the Brigham Circle end of the hospital (the old Peter Bent Brigham.)
Everyday Catastrophic Death
When I was at Mass General, a staff person had a massive and fatal stroke or heart attack that even working in a hospital couldn't redeem.
The homocide people show up to such events just to make sure that what looks like an extreme and sudden event is really natural causes and not related to an interesting injection or ingestion of drugs.
DEATH INVESTIGATION:
"DEATH INVESTIGATION" is what they do. The Homicide Unit goes to determine IF there is probable cause one person killed another, whether deliberate or unintentional, and to collect evidence.
Homocide: The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional
Murder: An act of deliberate killing of another human being.
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They will also show up
Detectives will also show up at the hospital if a potential victim was sent there (homocide unit would likely show up even if a victim were still alive). But not sure they'd call the hospital a "crime scene" in that case, though.
Thank god we have tweets so
Thank god we have tweets so that we all know nothing and can spend lots of time trying to guess what actually happened. How about instead we trying guessing what the next pointless tech will be that UHub adoringly follows?
An employee was found
An employee was found unconscious in a locker room. It's under investigation as a possible drug overdose.
From BWH COO :
From BWH COO : ...employee was found in an OR locker room unconscious. I am sorry to report that our employee later died. Boston Police are investigating the death as an accidental drug overdose; we are cooperating fully with their investigation. Out of respect for the employee’s privacy, the name is not being released.
junkies
fuckin junkies are everywhere !
Junkies...You are an
Junkies...You are an ignorant idiot. You have no right to speak that way about anyone. You might want to read up on being a respectful human being. Do you think her children would like to come across your comment about their mother? Keep your awful comments to yourself.
ha ha
"Do you think her children would like to come across your comment about their mother".........or how about this. Do u think her children would like to come across their mother lying on the floor drooling, jammed out on dope? come on .....no self-respect!
You really are one hateful SOB
Aren't you, Mr. Billings?
To Billings
She wasn't junkie and her cause of death was of naturally causes.
I have accesses to that information because I'm family.
She left two kids behind and sadly her daughter was a victim to comments like, "Oh your mother died because she was a druggie."
You shouldn't be so quick to judge someone.
You don't know the whole story.
She was a great women and she'll be missed greatly.
More so now because the holidays are approaching.
Drug overdose at Brigham and Women's
use drugs, u die!
A cleaning woman
The Globe reports, adding the drugs probably didn't come from the hospital.