Malignancy
Surgery
Trauma
Central venous Catheter
Pregnancy
OCP/HRT
Immobilization
CHF/ A-Fib
Antiphospholipid Ab Syndrome
Myeloproliferative Disorder
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hb
IBD
Nephrotic Syndrome
Hyperviscosity
Sickle Cell Anemia
HIV/AIDS
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON
Commander of the US 3rd Army and later the US 7th Army in the invasion of Sicily. On Sunday, December 9, 1945, he was being driven by twenty-three old Private Horace Woodring in a 1939 Cadillac for an afternoon of pheasant shooting on the estate of a German friend.
At 11:45am they were passing through the outskirts of Mannheim when a US Army truck turned left in front of the Cadillac to enter the Quartermaster Corps camp. It appeared to be a minor accident but the collision broke the neck of the flamboyant General who died a few days later at the US Military Hospital in Heidelberg from a pulmonary embolism in the left lung.
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