Three Lives Exposed by Heart Attack

A patient coded three times in one shift and each time he flatlined his wife and mistress

both showed up claiming to be his emergency contact. I'm standing there doing compressions

while security is literally holding these two women apart in the hallway. Third time we brought

him back he opened his eyes and the first thing he said was call Jennifer. Neither of them

was Jennifer. Turns out Jennifer was wife number two from another state and she had

his actual healthcare proxy. When she walked in both women went silent.

This man had three separate lives with three different women and a heart attack exposed everything

at once. His chart had three different addresses. The mistress started crying.