Hospital Warning!
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
On 28th February 1996, I was with my children and my mum in our local library in Staines, Middlesex. This was a common occurance as my children loved books. My mum picked up a random book to have a look at it and a piece of paper fell out from it onto the floor. I was standing next to her and so I picked it up and it had the name 'Elliot Ward' written on it. We thought nothing more of it and placed it back inside the book.
The following morning, 29th February, my mum was on duty (she was a district nursing sister, now retired) in Sunbury-on-Thames and there was ice on the ground. She slipped and broke her femur and was rushed to the hospital for surgery. When we were able to visit her she was recovering on 'Elliot Ward'.
Sara Galvin
Date submitted:Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:43:57 +0000Coincidence ID:5915
