Ga. hospital uses Facebook to ID mystery patient
Posted: 02/16/2012
ATLANTA - An Atlanta hospital has identified a comatose patient with help from Facebook and a Spanish-language news organization.
Grady Memorial Hospital workers had sought help from the public to identify a patient known only as "John Doe."
Authorities say the man was struck by a vehicle in a Feb. 5 hit-and-run accident near Buford Highway and North Druid Hills Road.
Grady spokeswoman Denise Simpson tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the patient was identified after his photo was posted on the Facebook page of the Journal-Constitution's Spanish-language news partner, Mundo Hispanico. Responses poured in, and he was identified as Juan Cruz Gomez.
Yesenia Cienfuegos tells WSB-TV that Gomez has been in a coma. She says he worked in construction, has a family and children in his native Guatemala and two brothers in Maryland.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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