{"id":9764,"date":"2012-08-03T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=9764"},"modified":"2012-08-03T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:39:21","slug":"too-fat-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=9764","title":{"rendered":"“Too Fat for Science!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

That was the headline in yesterday’s Daily News.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why did I read it? <\/a>Because the sub-headline was “Hospital caused ‘grave humiliation’ to kin: suit.” And because it was written by one of my favorite reporters, John Marzulli, who seems to be branching off the organized crime beat into my-kind-of-lawsuit beat.<\/p>\n

So what’s the problem here? Well, George Cardel, a 59 year old man, died. And his “final wish died with him\u00a0\u2014 doomed by his hefty 300-pound frame.”<\/p>\n

What was his final wish? That his body be donated to science. So what’s the problem, aside from a fat man dying at age 59, largely, I would think, because he’s fat? Well, the hospital where he died really tried to “place his corpse with the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine…But there were no takers according to a [$2 million] complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.<\/p>\n

“The deceased weighed too much,” said lawyer Eric Rothstein, who is representing Cardel’s sister in a suit that claims the hospital caused “grave humiliation.” (Was Rothstein laughing when he wrote that? Geez, I hope so.)<\/p>\n

“Even worse,” writes Marzulli, “the 59-year-old man’s body wasn’t returned for 13 days\u00a0\u2014 so badly decomposed it required cremation.”<\/p>\n

“We thought everything was taken care of until 13 days later,” Cardel’s sister Maryanne O’Donnell told the Daily News.”<\/p>\n

“Maryanne’s husband, Joseph, said it left the family reeling.<\/p>\n

“‘Everybody was trying to get through closure and suddenly George was back,’ he said.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

That line is so powerful, so resonant, so … well, I can’t stop laughing so I’m going to bold it. There. Bolded.<\/p>\n

P.S. Wanna bet this case gets tossed?<\/p>\n

P.P.S. Understand why I read the Daily News<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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