Arizona toddler comes back from the dead inside hospital morgue
A toddler who was pronounced dead after a suspected drowning in Arizona was miraculously found alive in a hospital morgue nearly six hours later.
The 18-month-old boy, who was found inside his family’s pool in Gilbert on Super Bowl Sunday, was rushed to Mercy Gilbert Medical Center and pronounced dead despite concerns from police that the tot showed signs of life, according to ABC 15.
Medical staff at the hospital dismissed their concerns, saying that the toddler’s body was only responding to efforts to save his life. A police officer tried to alert the doctor who pronounced him dead, but the doctor brushed him off as not having the expertise necessary.
“[The doctor] arrogantly told me he was the doctor, he has the medical degree, he went to medical school for a reason, and to let him do his thing,” a police report said. The officer had also heard a nurse say the toddler had a pulse.
The doctor still declared the toddler dead, despite officers seeing signs of life over the next hour.
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