A hospital patient died after being taken off life support when staff mistakenly asked the wrong family if they wanted to pull the plug, according to a lawsuit.
David Wells was unconscious and not breathing when he was rushed in an ambulance to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington after choking on a piece of steak in August 2021.
However, he was wrongly identified as his hospital roommate, Mike Beehler, according to the lawsuit obtained by McClatchy News .
Hospital staff attempted to reach out to Wells’ family to make the tough decision to take him off life support — but instead called Beehler’s sister, Debbie Danielson, mistakingly saying that he was the one in grave condition…