I'm still not sure what to make of all that I have been reading about SR's hospitalization on the day he expired. I read the Anon posting from the supposed Surgical Resident who scrubbed on his trauma. Sounds like someone with a medical background, but it doesn't make sense. Is this purposeful disinformation?
OK, so Anon Surgical Resident states that SR had survivable injuries to bowel and segment 3 of liver which were controlled and he was stable intraop and postop. Since he was found by Police within minutes (according to multiple reports) and the presumed hospital (MedStar Washington Center) is a nearby Level I Trauma Center, he was probably brought there quickly as an emergent trauma and was probably in the OR quickly after the injury. I assume he was intubated in the field or quickly after arrival, but diagnostic workup was unlikely to be done and he was probably brought to OR for laparotomy immediately. So far, so good, just as Anon Surgical Resident stated.
Laparotomy for diagnosis and damage control/control of bleeding for the injuries described should take 1-2 hours, more or less depending on details of the injuries. So lets say that he went into the OR quickly after the injury. Police report (CCN #16113797 – PUBLIC INCIDENT REPORT - https://www.scribd.com/document/320691960/Event-16113797-Public-Incident-Packet-1)) states that the incident occurred at 4:20AM on July 10,2016. For the sake of argument, lets say he is in the OR at 4:30 or 4:40AM. If the procedure takes 2 hours, lets say he is done at around 6:30AM. As Anon Surgical Resident states, he then goes to rounds (around 7 AM is typical) and is told not to talk about VIP patient and is barred from rounding on him. I'm assuming that he stays intubated postop and is brought directly to ICU postop with sedation/pain meds. He then states that the hospital is flooded with LEOs around 8 hours later (around noon) who prevent all but a few from seeing SR. Sometime later that day (?), SR presumably dies but no code is called to resuscitate him.
This is where it doesn't't make sense. The police report, which was filled out at 7:10 AM on July 10, states that he has already expired and the time of death is listed at 5:57AM July 10. Time of death given by Attending Physician.
Either the Police Report is wrong or the the Anon Surgical Resident narrative is wrong. They cannot both be right. If he died in the OR, as implied by the 5:57 AM time of death, it also implied that the injuries were much worse than those described by Anon Surgical Resident. Perhaps major vascular injuries (aorta, vena cava, renal vascular injuries or much worse hepatic injuries that were more difficult to control). If he died in the OR or shortly thereafter in ICU, it is very unlikely that he wouldn't have been involved or at least known about it.
The other possibility is that the Police Report is not accurate, but if that is so it would be purposeful and not accidental. I'm not sure of the provenance of the Police Report that I have referenced above. I assume it was actually posted by DC Police. While the Anon Surgical Resident story sounds good at first, I'm not sure its not some kind of disinformation since the times don't match.
All I'm saying is to take "facts" about SR with a grain of salt and to keep digging for more facts.
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13Buddha ago
@Someone_Or_Other, I am a nurse, old-school, the best school. Worked 20 years in a hospital, adult med-surg; hemodialysis; ICU; and ER. After that, worked 18 years in a law firm as a nurse paralegal and now as legal nurse consultant. Way too much info, I know, but frankly, I don't give a damn.
This surgical resident 100% sounds like the real deal to me. It doesn't make sense for someone to make this up. The information he provided (or she) is 100% on target when it comes to medical lingo and chain of events.
What I see happening in the last week or so is that many of us have gotten to the point that we no longer know who to trust and what information to believe. Understandably so, but lack of trust will lead to more and more confusion. Common sense always and knowledge has to be our guide throughout this investigation.
For the past few days i have emphatically believed that this surgical resident is the real deal and consider it a major factor in this case. If others and I are proven wrong, I say,, so be it. We move on.
Setting-up Seth Rich was a beautifully orchestrated plan from the beginning to the very end, including the predicting of possible scenarios/outcomes that could go awry and implementing the next plan of action immediately.
IMHO, Seth Rich was murdered in the ICU postoperatively. No Code Blue was called, no death certifcate, no post-mortem, no medical records. We do have a surgical resident, but he is in his fcurth year of residency and likely will be on his way the end of June when his residency requirements come to an end, probably saying as he walks out that hospital door for the last time, "Fuck you, DC."
privatepizza ago
Appreciate hearing your thoughts and expertise. Have you considered the theory that any doctor could have been commissioned to write this report to be spread as disinfo?
13Buddha ago
No, I do not @privatepizza. Because it is very important information that will help our efforts in bringing forth justice.
privatepizza ago
I would be with you 100%, if this wasn't the one and only piece of information we have to say that he was taken to hospital. We can't use an anon source as a factual source, we need more.
There's nothing, no information at all, not one piece of factual evidence which tells us SR went to hospital. Any hospital.
I was on 4Chan/pol last night to see what info they had about the hospital. It's the same there, they have nothing.
So it's all looking a little strange... as are many other things, but if we continue to question everything and keep digging, hopefully we will find something factual to back up DocAnon.
Here's the 4Chan thread re no hospital information, from last night, for anyone interested - http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/127271179#p127276140
13Buddha ago
Perhaps you have seen this video, but here is the link anyway. It is done in narrative form reciting everything the resident described to 4chan. https://youtu.be/W2xJlwZfqQ4
If only that resident would come forward again, even just to confirm the hospital, but he probably is in fear for his life. Can't blame him.
I feel 99% confident that Seth Rich was transported to the Medstar Hospital where Sava worked. Howard Hospital was ruled-out, and those 2 hospitals were the closest ones.