>“This is significant trauma,” Dr. Gavin Britz, the neurosurgery chair at Houston Methodist, told The New York Times. “This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.”
The sudden death of actor and comedian Bob Saget last month at the age of 65 stunned millions. After initial reports that he died in his sleep, we learned this week that the actual cause of death was head trauma. Authorities “concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep,” CNN reported.
What kind of trauma could cause an otherwise healthy 65-year-old to die in his sleep? That’s the real question, isn’t it? It seems that the extent of the head trauma is more extensive than was originally suggested.
“Some neurosurgeons said that it would be unusual for a typical fall to cause Mr. Saget’s set of fractures — to the back, the right side, and the front of his skull,” reports the New York Times. “Those doctors said that the injuries appeared more reminiscent of ones suffered by people who fall from a considerable height or get thrown from their seat in a car crash.”
The autopsy, however, found no injuries elsewhere on Saget’s body, and the medical examiner ruled that the death was accidental.
Still, something isn’t adding up.
“This is significant trauma,” Dr. Gavin Britz, the neurosurgery chair at Houston Methodist, told The New York Times. “This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.”
CNN contributor Dr. Sanjay Gupta agrees. “[If] I knew nothing else about what had happened, you would think that maybe this was someone who had fallen down the stairs and had several impacts to the head or been unrestrained in a car accident,” he said after reviewing the autopsy report. “I mean, it was that degree of force.”
Emergency physician Dr. Megan Ranney also believes something isn’t right. “This is not a ‘slip & fall’. This is not a minor concussion. This is MAJOR head trauma,” she tweeted. “My condolences to Saget’s friends & family. I hope that they get answers as to what really happened.” Though, she added she doesn’t mean it was an intentional trauma.
Others aren’t so sure the injuries were accidental. “No wrongdoing found. Something doesn’t make sense given his severe head injuries,” former AUSA-SDNY Richard Signorelli tweeted.
Carter Baker
Remember that ABBA drummer who died by accidently cutting himself and bleeding to death because he smashed through a glass door? People die in weird freak accidents.
Xavier Carter
the jab + boosters make your bones soft. minor injuries can become catastrophic
What ever happened to bone density? The milk man, the paper boy, the evening TV? How did I get delivered here? Somebody tell me please This old world's contusing me
Everywhere you trip, everywhere you fall There's nothing to hold onto Everywhere you slip, every corner a blow There's a fracture of some bone you need Everywhere you slip
When you're lost out there and you're all alone A light is waiting to carry you home Everywhere you slip Everywhere you fall Shoo-bit-a-ba-ba-bow
Levi Foster
>TikTok I ain't clicking that Chinese spyware
Gabriel Lopez
>Americans would never spy on you
grow up
Juan Roberts
>thought nothing of it How would they know what he thought of it? It sounds like they dont know how he died so they made shit up
Kayden Brown
he knew too much
Robert Garcia
so you think his head exploded?
Jaxson Rodriguez
Not bad
Ayden Robinson
He slipped and hit his head on the side of his bathtub what is more to understand?
Hudson Lee
Multiple fractures. The family of the girl he raped and murdered in 1990 finally got revenge.
Easton Foster
>“This is significant trauma,” so who is showing these random other surgeons the xrays or whatever? Or are they just getting some hearsay
