In 2006, 79-year-old Eugene “Gene” Riggs Jr was admitted to the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas with stomach pains. The doctors’ initial diagnosis was that they suspected that Riggs was suffering from an intestinal-related ailment, and because the doctors feared that Riggs was not getting enough nutrition, they ordered a feeding tube. He ended up dying there — after a feeding tube was mistakenly inserted into his right lung. It was supposed to go into his stomach. The tube was left there for nine hours, filling his lung with the food that should have gone into his stomach.