pass out

[Donald M Lance]

on 8/2/02 8:33 AM, Mark A Mandel at mam at THEWORLD.COM wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Drew Danielson wrote:
>
...........
> #The article may mean that there isn't independent verification that he
> #lost consciousness, and therefore it wasn't stated as a fact.
>
> From the article:
>>>>
>
> "Our conductor's got a passenger who has apparently passed out; he's
> breathing, but he's passed out," an unidentified crew member tells
> dispatch, according to the transcript. "We need medical assistance at
> Back Bay Station."
> <<<
>
> ....... Maybe the crew member talking to the dispatcher is inferring
> "passed out, unconscious" from a less explicit message from the
> conductor, but s/he is reporting it as a fact.

My guess is that the decision-maker assumed 'passed out' = 'fainted', not
something like a heart attack.

DMLance