Man's life support switched off after hospital staff mistake him for another patient A man died after his life support was switched off by mistake after staff confused him with another patient.
And when an attempt to call the Wells family about making the difficult decision to switch off the life support was made, the sister of Mr Beehler, Debbie Danielson, was reportedly contacted in error.
He was placed on a life support at the PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Centre, and the mistake happened when staff confused him with another patient Mike Beehler.
And then Gary added: “We made life-ending decisions for a person we don’t even know.” There was even a death notice published in the local newspaper which read: "Michael A. Beehler, 60, Vancouver, died August 9, 2021".
“’Do you want us to keep him on life support or do you want to pull the plug?’” And faced with this reality she and her husband Gary agreed that it had to be done.
