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Woman Pours Hot Grease On Sleeping Husband Who Cheated

11/1/2011

Woman Severely Burns Husband

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Decherd man is in the burn center at Vanderbilt Medical Center and his wife of 16 years is free on a $25,000 bond following an incident at their home Sunday morning.

According to Decherd Police Chief Ross Peterson, Mary Annette Martin, 38, of 104 Woodland Drive Decherd has been charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence following an incident at hers and her husband, Jason, home.


The woman told Officer Kenneth Griffin that her husband had "cheated" on her in May and that had been on her mind. She stated that they had been asleep when she got up and went to the kitchen and heated a pan of grease.


She then took the pan of grease and threw it on her husband who was still asleep. When the officer arrived Jason Martin asked the officer if the ambulance was there.  "Officer Griffin advised him to get in the shower until the ambulance could get there," Chief Peterson explained.  When the ambulance arrived the man was transported to Southern Tennessee Medical Center.


Doctors at STMC advised Decherd Police Sgt. Randy Wildes that Jason Martin suffered third degree burns on his torso and both arms.  "The doctor advised Sgt. Wildes that the burns could be life threatening," Peterson explained.   Jason Martin was transported to Vanderbilt where he is undergoing treatment for burns.
The couple's children were not at home at the time of the incident.


Mary Martin is to appear in Franklin County General Sessions Court Dec. 28.


Jason Martin is the nephew of former University of Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer.

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Should alcoholics get liver transplants?

Should alcoholics get liver transplants?

 

Carla K. Johnson

AP

November 10, 2011 11:40AM

 

 

Some gravely ill alcoholics who need a liver transplant shouldn’t have to prove they can stay sober for six months to get one, doctors say in a study that could intensify the debate over whether those who destroy their organs by drinking deserve new ones.

In the small French study, the vast majority of the patients who got a liver without the wait stopped drinking after their surgery and were sober years later. The study involved patients who were suffering from alcohol-related hepatitis so severe that they were unlikely to survive a six-month delay.

The findings, reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, could boost demand for livers, already in scarce supply, and reopen a bitter dispute over whether alcoholics should even get transplants.

The controversy peaked in the 1990s when celebrities with drinking problems — Larry Hagman, David Crosby and Mickey Mantle — got liver transplants.

Alcohol can cause lethal, liver-destroying diseases such as cirrhosis and hepatitis. Nearly one in five liver transplants in the U.S. go to current or former heavy drinkers. Transplant hospitals commonly require patients waiting for a new liver to give up drinking for six months as a way of assuring doctors they are serious about staying sober after the operation.

Drinkers severely ill with hepatitis account for a very small share of patients needing transplants. The French study suggests that dropping the six-month rule would increase demand for livers by only about 3 percent.

The study’s lead author said a strict application of the six-month rule may be unfair to such patients. He said they are just as deserving as other liver patients, many of whom have diseases caused by poor lifestyle choices such as drug use or obesity.

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