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Imagine the scene: Your beloved grandmother has been hospitalized for a respiratory illness. And then comes the bad news — A nurse at the hospital calls to say your grandmother has passed away. You go to her room to gather her personal items, and that’s when your dead grandmother wakes up. <\/p>\n
Well, that’s exactly what happened to a family in Brooklyn over the weekend following a mix-up at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.<\/p>\n
After being told about the tragic passing, the patient’s great-granddaughter paid a final visit to the supposedly deceased relative. “I just walked up to her and I touched her head, and when I touched her head, her eyes opened and she turned her head,” the great-granddaughter recalled. “When she did that, I started screaming.”<\/p>\n
“That was a bad experience for me, because I never went through that, and I’m still in shock,” she added.<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, the family is already talking about possible legal action.<\/p>\n
“It’s negligence on the hospital’s part,” the patient’s granddaughter told reporters. “We are looking at emotional duress, emotional stress — you know, that’s basically what our issue is.”<\/p>\n
While the hospital has yet to issue a proper statement on the snafu, the family says they were told it was a simple mix-up. And one news report claims that the nurse got the patient in question confused with another patient having a similar last name.<\/p>\n
Does the family have a legal leg to stand on? And even if they do, should they sue? Would you?<\/p>\n