Lap-Band 911 recording is released

Friday, November 4, 2011 - 00:30 in Health & Medicine

As a patient was dying, a clinic worker who phoned for help initially misidentified her age and gender.A 55-year-old Orange County woman who died after Lap-Band weight-loss surgery at a San Fernando Valley clinic was initially identified as a man "less than 40" in the 911 emergency call placed by a clinic employee, according to a newly released recording of the call.

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