Last month, a police officer was stabbed in the head by an emotionally disturbed man. A knife with a 3.5" blade was driven into Police Officer Eder Loor's head, penetrating his skull and brain. A doctor called Loor "the luckiest unlucky man you could ever have." Today, Loor left Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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Cop Who Was Stabbed In The Brain Leaves Hospital: "I'm Just Happy That I'm Alive"
Cop Who Was Stabbed In The Brain Is The "Luckiest Unlucky Man"
On Tuesday, a police officer responding to a call about an emotionally disturbed man was stabbed in the head by the man. The knife, with a 3.5" blade, penetrated Officer Eder Loor's skull and his brain. Yesterday, Loor's neurosurgeon described him as "probably the luckiest unlucky man you could ever have."
Doctors: No Change In Giffords' Condition, Not Out Of The Woods Yet
The medical team at University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson announced that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was shot in the head on Saturday during an apparent assassination attempt, remains in critical condition. Chief of neurosurgery Dr. Michael Lemole said, "At this phase in the game, no change is good, and we have no change," but added, "We're not out of the woods yet; that swelling can sometimes take three days or five days to maximize. But every day that goes by and we don't see an increase, we're slightly more optimistic."
Students Discover Classmate's Brain In Jar On Field Trip
In a field trip to the Richmond County Mortuary, some Staten Island teenagers made a ghastly discovery: their former classmate's brain on display in a jar. Jesse Shipley, 17, died in a car crash in 2005, and medical examiner Dr. Stephen de Roux took the license to keep the teen's brain. It was discovered on the field trip months later, and the Shipley's have now gotten permission to sue the city, even though they're saying they did nothing wrong.
Natasha Richardson Critically Injured, Flying to NYC?
As previously mentioned, sad news of actress Natasha Richardson being injured during a skiing accident yesterday was reported this morning. Richardson, wife of Liam Neeson, was at a Montreal-area resort taking a beginner's lesson when she fell. While she didn't have a helmet on, the NY Times has word from a spokeswoman at the resort who said “She didn’t show any signs of injury, she was talking and she seemed all right.” But now the 45-year-old Tony-award winner is reportedly in critical condition with a brain injury. The latest word is that she is "sedated and suffering from brain swelling -- but is not brain dead." And TMZ has just reported that she was boarded onto a private jet with a medic team to be taken to a new hospital that they believe is in New York City.
Woman Sues After Two Year Hunt for Brains
A Long Island woman has filed a $4 million lawsuit against the Mount Sinai Medical Center, its Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, and the Suffolk County medical examiner's office for removing her husband's brain after his death two years ago. Mozelle Purifoy of Central Islip says that neither she nor her husband Tom had ever agreed for his organs to be donated before his suicide in 2006. Yet on the day of his funeral she learned that he was being buried minus one key part. Even though she claims that the chief Suffolk medical examiner met with her last year and told her that it should have been returned, she still doesn't know where the brain is. "It's ghoulish. It's bizarre. It's just one trauma after the next," Purifoy said.
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