Aw, crap.

[kyburg]

They've found Robert Korda.

Dead - but not from foul play, if that helps any.

Oh man.

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[kynn.livejournal.com]

Oh. That's so sad. :(

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Yup. Good ol' coroner's office is now under the public eye again. I feel really bad for Korda's family.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

We're so broke but who would know it, CallyFOOOORnia!

[sekl.livejournal.com]

Ugh. At least they have found him.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting the news. I am sorry for his family, this is rough news no matter how they get it.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

wow, I can't believe that whoevers' home he was at did not contact the family. Or that the coroner did not. that's insane.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

They misspelled his name. The EDI geek in me is just shaking her head because she knows parsing text is the biggest reason searches fail and that putting a unique ID on anything you want to track is the only way...uh, that's essentially a UPC code, ala barcode?

Not what you want to hear relative to human beings - but in this case? You could have put Yosemite Sam in the machine, but if the ID had been unique to Robert Korda, bingo.

Watch this become an item as the push to computerize medical records ramps up. (And I fully intend to get in on the action - this is actually MY profession we're talking about here. Who'd have thunk it.)

That said - CRAP.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

First, I assume the owners of the home he was in knew his actual name and could have contacted the family.

Second, I don't see why the coroner (or the EMTs!) didn't simply check his wallet and contact his family.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

You would, huh - I'm there too. You can get in big trouble checking wallets these days, believe it or not - and if you don't take the info down right? It's possible nobody looked at the wallet EVER.

There's also a lot of chatter about systems being able to share information - here's another good example of systems very deliberately keep apart because of privacy concerns. (Stupid? Oh hells.)

I suspect only the the people who called 911 could give the information at all, and they did so verbally - the personal effects probably didn't get looked at until after he was pronounced, and then only to inventory it to go with the remains.

Will we ever know? Weeel.