Amputated leg tossed into the garbage at Doctors Hospital

[muriel_volestrangler]

A month after John Timiriasieff’s right leg was amputated at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, homicide detectives knocked at his door with a strange question: Why was his amputated limb found in the garbage?

The detectives had suspected foul play. The real story turned out to be about hospital sanitation — but it’s still a whodunnit.

Timiriasieff, a Key Largo man in his 50s, went into the hospital, part of the Baptist Health South Florida system, in October for an amputation below his right knee. But the hospital, instead of incinerating the amputated limb as is the normal practice, tossed the leg into the garbage.
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The homicide detectives found the leg — with Timiriasieff’s name tag still attached — at a waste management facility and notified Timiriasieff, who contacted the hospital for an explanation.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article20049624.html#storylink=cpy

[PoliticAverse]

1. Bring out yer leg!...

[Hoppy]

2. Rather than him contacting the hospital for an explanation, his lawyer should.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Oh, he did - I don't know how the case turned out

The link is about the start of the case.