Premium Episode #29 - George Pickering
When the SWAT team was called to the Tomball Regional Medical Centre outside of Huston, Texas on the evening of Saturday January 10 2015, they were aware that a hostage situation was unfolding inside the ICU room of critical patient George Pickering III. As the hospital was put in lock down, staff and patients were on edge as word spread that a drunk and disorderly gunman was on the loose.
Team:
Anonymous Host - narration
Eileen Ormsby - research, writing
Milly Raso - creative direction
Mike Migas - production, music
Andrew D.B. Joslyn - music
Comments (17)
For the record this is happening with frefrequency in hospitals. There is money for organs, so if you are an organ donor on your driver's lilicense, beware. Plus it was the pharmaceuticals this young man was taking that nearly killed him. Kudos to the father.
Hey guys, make an advance directive for yourself even if you're not in immediate danger of stroking out. An advance directive will let docs and loved ones know exactly what your wishes are should you end up in a vegetative state and can't communicate. Do not make your family members decide for you, it's cruel. Few people are like "yeah I got to tell them to pull the plug and it was rad"
Ugh… this one gave me anxiety. The hospital gave my wife the wrong iv and caused a brain bleed. I remember laying in the hospital still trying to wrap my brain around wtf happened when the end of life people come in… to this day I still feel like I should’ve let her fight longer because I just didn’t feel the doctors were right. She was 32, and I feel like they were in such a hurry to get her organs. My kids were 3 and 4, and my oldest would say “my mommy’s a superhero, she saved 5 lives!” … but when she’d say that I always felt like maybe she’d still be here if I told the end of life and docs saying she was brain dead all to f off
The medical staff were ready to snatch George Jr’s organs right out of him. Now, I don’t advise people to go and do this, but the medical staff seemed too eager to declare him dead and harvest his organs.
It's because you have a really narrow window of time to get the organs out, transported, and into another person. It's not like milk, you can't use them past their expiration date. Organ donation is just that-- a donation, there's no profit or kickback involved, so there's no reason for a hospital to "snatch" organs except to get them while they're fresh and send them off.
Fantastic thought provoking story.
Sorry, I hate publicizing these stories. Healthcare workers go through enough without crazies being encouraged to shoot up a ward because they don’t like a diagnosis
Their diagnosis was wrong. Perhaps people would be more considerate of HC workers if they were more considerate to the families of their patients.
Excellent change of pace. Raises some questions, indeed.
He did what he had to do for his child.
The dad is a hero
Good episode, i sympathise for George II because you know his intentions weren’t to hurt anyone
I mean he did point a gun at people. I get what you're saying but there are not many other uses for a gun
Huston? Is that John or Anjelica?
Mmmm, Anjelica Huston...
Only a short one today😅
The premium episodes are usually 30-40 mins I think