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> I wonder if it's possible that she checked herself out but immediately died outside the hospital

I find that really unlikely.

I mean, for starters, they had her body and knew it was her body in storage. That doesn't happen if they don't have IDs attached to the corpse. I find it unlikely that the hospital wouldn't be ringing the family like crazy because of a body they want to unload. Especially if they have the paperwork showing that she'd checked out. There'd be no reason not to almost immediately say "Hey, actually, we found her right outside the hospital dead, sorry for your loss".

I'm guessing an obvious fuck up killed her like 10xing her insulin dosage by mistake. Or administering something other than insulin.

And it wouldn't surprise me if, conveniently, 17 or 24 months just happens to be the retention policy for medical records.



> And it wouldn't surprise me if, conveniently, 17 or 24 months just happens to be the retention policy for medical records.

This was in California, where the law [0] is 7 years minimum, potentially more if the patient was a minor.

AFAICT every state wants at least ~5 years of retention.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/22-CCR-72...


Or they needed to keep the body long enough that any evidence of malpractice could be hidden.




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