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Injured dog walks itself to hospital emergency room
Healthcare Security Weekly, October 16, 2006
Most hospital security departments are used to responding to strange calls. And this one ranks right up there. A nurse at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Bellflower, CA called security after a German shepherd mix showed up at the emergency room in the early morning hours of October 4. It turns out the dog was indeed injured, apparently struck by a car, the Whittier (CA) Daily News reported. The dog limped up the ramp, waited for the automatic emergency door to open, and walked inside.
"I was working the triage area, and we noticed a dog walking in," a nurse recalled. "So we called security to walk him out, and right away he turned around and came right back and sat in the waiting room area and just laid there. He wouldn't get up after that."
Hospital officials called the local animal control authority. Animal control officials picked up the dog and brought him to their shelter for treatment of a fractured leg. They were able to identify "Buddy," whose owner reported him missing two weeks earlier, from a microchip planted under his skin.
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