Post by Maacc on Dec 7, 2005 11:49:52 GMT
There's a thread somewhere on the board that suggested Yoko may have had a part to play in JL's death. I thought it unlikely, and I read this article, culled from the NY Daily News, where they interviewed the doctor who treated Lennon for his fatal injuries on December the 8th 1980:
By JULIAN KESNER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Dr. Stephan Lynn, who treated Lennon in 1980.
The ER doctor who valiantly tried to save John Lennon's life believes that despite medical advances in the last quarter century, the ex-Beatle's gunshot injuries would still be untreatable today.
"There was no way of repairing that damage then and, to my knowledge, there's no way to repair that amount of damage today," Dr. Stephan Lynn told the Daily News yesterday - two days before the 25th anniversary of the musician's murder.
"There was absolutely nothing we could do."
In a sitdown with the News, Lynn recalled having to break the news of Lennon's death to Yoko Ono at Roosevelt Hospital - and then the world.
"There was a time she was lying on the floor, literally pounding her head against the concrete, during which I was concerned I was going to have a second patient," said the doctor.
"Many, many times she said, 'You're lying, I don't believe you, he's not dead,'" he added.
"[Music mogul David Geffen] was helpful in getting her to calm down and accept what had happened. She never asked to see the body, and I never offered. She needed to get home, and she did."
About 30 minutes later, at just before midnight on Dec. 8, 1980, Lynn delivered the grim news to the media.
"I didn't have time to practice what I was going to say. I was very nervous," recalled Lynn, who was then 33 and the director of emergency medicine at Roosevelt Hospital.
After the public announcement, Lynn went through the ER and collected everything from the operating room.
"I said, 'Not a piece of linen with Mr. Lennon's blood is to leave this department except in a special bag,'" he recalled. "I had to tell the nursing staff that they could not sell their uniforms, which might have been stained with John Lennon's blood.
"It wasn't until about an hour or two later that I had a chance to think. I realized that I had participated in a major moment of history."
After ending his 20-hour day about 3a.m., Lynn walked home alone up Columbus Ave. "I was afraid that someone would run up to me and say, 'You're the doctor who didn't save John Lennon and allowed him to die,'" he said.
To this day, Lynn said, "I get lots of strange phone calls and letters. I was asked if we had saved Mr. Lennon's brain, if we had froze Mr. Lennon's body, if we had saved Mr. Lennon's sperm. They wanted to think in some way that a part of him was still available and alive."
By JULIAN KESNER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Dr. Stephan Lynn, who treated Lennon in 1980.
The ER doctor who valiantly tried to save John Lennon's life believes that despite medical advances in the last quarter century, the ex-Beatle's gunshot injuries would still be untreatable today.
"There was no way of repairing that damage then and, to my knowledge, there's no way to repair that amount of damage today," Dr. Stephan Lynn told the Daily News yesterday - two days before the 25th anniversary of the musician's murder.
"There was absolutely nothing we could do."
In a sitdown with the News, Lynn recalled having to break the news of Lennon's death to Yoko Ono at Roosevelt Hospital - and then the world.
"There was a time she was lying on the floor, literally pounding her head against the concrete, during which I was concerned I was going to have a second patient," said the doctor.
"Many, many times she said, 'You're lying, I don't believe you, he's not dead,'" he added.
"[Music mogul David Geffen] was helpful in getting her to calm down and accept what had happened. She never asked to see the body, and I never offered. She needed to get home, and she did."
About 30 minutes later, at just before midnight on Dec. 8, 1980, Lynn delivered the grim news to the media.
"I didn't have time to practice what I was going to say. I was very nervous," recalled Lynn, who was then 33 and the director of emergency medicine at Roosevelt Hospital.
After the public announcement, Lynn went through the ER and collected everything from the operating room.
"I said, 'Not a piece of linen with Mr. Lennon's blood is to leave this department except in a special bag,'" he recalled. "I had to tell the nursing staff that they could not sell their uniforms, which might have been stained with John Lennon's blood.
"It wasn't until about an hour or two later that I had a chance to think. I realized that I had participated in a major moment of history."
After ending his 20-hour day about 3a.m., Lynn walked home alone up Columbus Ave. "I was afraid that someone would run up to me and say, 'You're the doctor who didn't save John Lennon and allowed him to die,'" he said.
To this day, Lynn said, "I get lots of strange phone calls and letters. I was asked if we had saved Mr. Lennon's brain, if we had froze Mr. Lennon's body, if we had saved Mr. Lennon's sperm. They wanted to think in some way that a part of him was still available and alive."