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Old 05-15-2009, 10:08 AM
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Unhappy Haemophiliac or homosexual, what's the difference?..

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/1-latest-news/45661-miscommunication-plays-role-in-norwegians-death.html

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Health staff trying to understand a bleeding Norwegian patient, who said he was a haemophiliac, thought he said he was homosexual and sent him home without necessary treatment

(....) said they had received information that when the 25-year-old presented himself at the hospital on Monday with his injury explaining he was a haemophiliac, hospital staff mistook him for saying he was a homosexual and sent him home. The Danish word for haemophilia is ‘hæmofili’ while the word ‘homofil’ means homophile or homosexual.

(....) the young man was found dead less than 24 hours later at his accommodation in Sydhavn of a brain haemorrhage.
Now that is bad luck!
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