Disconnected another patient by mistake – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

A woman in New York has, by mistake, consented to life care being taken away from a stranger wrongly identified as her brother. The man in question was filled with tubes and his face was inflamed, so that sister Shirell Powell, aware of the damage to the brain and the few chances of survival she needed, could not recognize them and allowed her to be disconnected.

Segin reports The New York PostWhen the man was disconnected, the autopsy was performed and the coroner identified the corpse with the social security card found on his clothes. It was then that they realized the error. Powell's brother named Frederick Williams and the subject on the stretcher was christened Frederick Clarence Williams.

Frederick Williams, 40, was found unconscious in the street by emergency services, apparently with a drug overdose. He was admitted to St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York, on July 15. I was in a brain dead state.

Instead, Shirell Powell's brother was in prison. Now he has filed a complaint against the New York hospital for committing this mistake.