The patient was 90 year old Julius Dixson, a songwriter known for his ‘50s hit “Lollipop.” Hospital personnel could not find the dentures they had removed before surgery on a bone near his hip. Apparently in satisfactory condition after surgery, Dixson could not eat and deteriorated over the next two weeks. His autopsy findings were consistent with death due to starvation and dehydration.
Via New York Post.
Background: The maxim “false teeth get lost” is number 11 of the 30 universal truths about nursing.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
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Which once again demonstrates the idiocy of our legal system. As a licensed dentist, I can assure you that any patient can get adequate nutrition, and certainly enough to survive and to prevent death by starvation, without teeth, or dentures. This should be a no brainer for the hospital's risk management department. If the family had shown even a fraction of the 'concern' that they now claim to have for the deceased, they could have availed themselves of a food blender, or even cans of liquid nutriment, which of course would have prevented his demise, if in fact the post postmortem is correct. I suspect that this is a hoax, one way or another. Mike in Vegas
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