"Dead" man wakes up !

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"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife Mon Sep 17, 8:53 AM ET
A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.

Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
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Injured man sent for post mortem
By James Ingham
BBC News, Caracas
An error in paperwork sent a man in Venezuela, who was knocked unconscious in a road accident, for an autopsy.
The confusion occurred after ambulance workers reached the scene of the accident, between a lorry and a car.

Officials completed a form requesting an autopsy rather than one requesting treatment for injuries, and the man was sent to the morgue.

Venezuela's highways police confirmed that the two hospital forms look almost identical and can be easily confused.

Bleeding face

It is not every day that someone wakes up from their own autopsy, but that is what happened to driver Carlos Camejo.

After a crash near the town of La Victoria, rescuers attending the scene filled in the wrong form.

Instead of requesting medical attention, they sent him for an autopsy.

Mr Camejo says doctors discovered he was alive when his face started bleeding.

His wife, who had been told he had died, later found him lying on a hospital trolley in a corridor.

She discovered the autopsy form stuffed into his trouser pocket.

Story from BBC NEWS:
BBC NEWS | Americas | Injured man sent for post mortem

Published: 2007/09/21 22:38:32 GMT

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Dead man waking: Venezuelan comes to during autopsy

From Reuters, purveyors of premier strange news, comes the Twilight Zone story of Carlos Camejo, who woke up — painfully — on a morgue slab in La Victoria, Venezuela, after being declared dead in a road wreck.

Medical examiners began the autopsy with an incision to Camejo's face, but realized something was wrong because the dead don't bleed. They quickly stitched up the gash.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," said the 33-year-old Camejo, whose tale appeared Friday in El Universal newspaper, along with a photo of Camejo holding the autopsy order.

Reuters wrote today that it could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events.


(Post-autopsy photo of Carlos Camejo by Reuters)

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