[Old_School]

Just heard on the news this morning on the way to work that a 7 year old boy beat to death his infant half-sister. Reports say he beat her with his hands, feet and a 2X4. This happened in Tampa. Anybody in the Bay Area got any further info?

O_S

[cassioo]

one of my patients told me that today also. Something has had to of happened to that 7 yr old in their lifetime to do that also I did a yahoo search and just put in 7 yr old beating tampa this is what I got if it pastes right:

1:16 p.m. June 1, 2005

TAMPA, Fla. – A 7-year-old boy beat his baby half-sister to death with his fists, feet and a two-by-four because he was jealous of the attention the girl was receiving and because she would not stop crying, police said Wednesday.
The State Attorney's Office is deciding whether to file charges against the boy in an attack that rattled even veteran homicide detectives.




"The veteran detectives who worked on this case have never seen a case with someone as young as a 7-year-old show so much violence and so little remorse," Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.

The attack occurred May 22 in Tampa, where the boy had been visiting his father. Seven-month-old Jayza Laney Simms was dead on arrival at the hospital where her parents rushed her.

The boy confessed to killing his sister a week later when detectives confronted him with the evidence, McElroy said.

The unidentified boy was not taken into custody and is living with his mother while prosecutors make their decision on whether to charge him.

Police said the father and his girlfriend were outside visiting with neighbors when the boy came to them about midnight on the night of the attack and told them the baby was "bleeding." They found the girl with a bloody nose and said she wasn't breathing.

The Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office did not immediately return telephone calls for comment Wednesday.

[Aaron C.]

send the parents to jail.

[Old_School]

Jury in Fl awards $8million to family of woman that was misdiagnosed for breast cancer. Died from the chemo. Postmortem exam showed she was disease free. OOPS!

I'm just wondering what this does to the mammogram movement. They finally got women to go out and get this test. Now they find out that it isn't all that accurate.

[nursinghumor]

August 29, 1999: Surgeon "Loses Clamp" Behind Patient's Heart During Bypass. Nurse's Responsibility To Pick Up?
Summary: During any surgical operation, there is an inherent "duty" owed to the patient that the operation will be carried out competently. This includes carrying out specified procedures and taking measures to prevent "foreign" objects from being left in the body cavity. In this case, during a coronary artery bypass grafting, a clamp slipped from the surgeon's sight. It would be found on x-ray later sitting behind the patient's heart.
http://www.nursefriendly.com/nursing...ses/082999.htm
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Guess the surgeon ran out of fingers to count on . . . ..

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.nursingcasestudy.com

[cassioo]

one of my former co-workers moved d/t her husbands job and took a job at a facility where the scrub tech and the nurse didn't count together and though her silly for wanting to count together. She didn't stay there long but moved on. I've seen on discovery health those patients where a retractor has been left in and always thing how can you lose a retractor those suckers are big. Also see on discovery health where they put all of the instruments out for cases where we pull out what most likely won't be used and sit it covered to the side so it doesn't go into the count unless it's added in so there aren't as many things to count. We also have MD preference cards so when the OR is set up we know how many things they require routinely and don't put more then we need usually the only thing we add on is a suture or a pack of laps.

[Old_School]

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Teenage girl killed by shark in Florida

Julian Borger in Washington
Monday June 27, 2005

Guardian

A 14-year-old girl was killed by a shark while swimming at a Florida beach at the weekend, despite the efforts of a surfer who tried to fend the shark off by punching it on the nose.

The victim was swimming with a friend about 200 metres from the shore at a camping ground in Destin on Saturday when the shark bit her on the leg.

Tim Dicus, a 54-year-old surfer, said he heard a scream and saw the girl floating face down in a patch of bloody water.

"I turned around and saw one of the girls swimming towards the beach frantically and the other one had disappeared and there was a big dark spot where she used to be in the water," he said.

"She was unconscious when I got to the blood pool," he said.

"Right next to her was the shark, about to come up and attack her again."

He put the injured girl on his surf board but the shark, more than two metres long, came back and tried to bite her hand.

Mr Dicus punched the shark on the nose.

"He just followed us right to the beach," he said. "He was really aggressive. I've been here a long time and I've never seen a shark get that aggressive."

The girl was pronounced dead by the time she reached hospital.

Local authorities closed about 20 miles of beach following the attack, but reopened it yesterday.

They said it was the first fatal shark bite in Destin's history. Seven people were killed in shark attacks around the world last year, including two in the US.

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

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Was this by your beach cass?

O_S

[cassioo]

yes that's where we were at last week. I do hae a picture of a 8 foot shark on the beach that a fisherman had caught. It had been injured probably how the fisherman caught it on a regular line. That's why you don't swim out past that 2nd sandbar just increases your chances. There are no lifeguards on the beaches down there either mostly private (hotel/condo beaches). I saw an overhead video of the Destin area yesterday and there were 100's of sharks swimming in circles out past those sandbars. They say anytime you're in the ocean your within 100 feet of a shark. I don't do the rafts and boogie boards anymore I'm just a lay on the beach and read my book then about every hour go in far enough to get wet then go back to the book. I leave next Wed for Jenson Island (near Palm Beach) for a week. I'm scheduled to work the 6 days before I leave hope to get called off maybe on 7/5 and pack or leave sooner.