Hospital officials at Los Angeles General Medical Center are turning to the public in a bid to crack the mystery of a John Doe, a man who's lain in a hospital bed, identity unknown, since April 8.
In a bid to rapidly find his family, the public hospital, overseen by the L.A. County Department of Health Services, has made the unusual move to outright seek assistance from media outlets and Angelenos at large. According to the County of Los Angeles, California, the patient is estimated to be a man in his fifties to sixties, stands about 5 feet 2 inches tall, and tips the scales at 122 pounds. He boasts a crop of black and grey hair atop his head, and his eyes bear the common shade of brown.
Found on W. Pico Blvd with not a single personal belonging to his name—not a wallet, no form of ID, and wearing no distinctive jewelry or tattoos—his anonymity persists as a challenging barrier to those seeking to reunite him with any potential kin. The man also bears no scars, those silent storytellers of a life lived, that could help to easily identify him, as reported by the County of Los Angeles, California.
The hospital’s outreach includes a direct plea from Cesar Robles, a Clinical Social Worker at Los Angeles General Medical Center. In hopes to somehow swiftly remedy this situation, Robles and the Department of Social Work at the facility are asking anyone with any sliver of information to reach out. “Anyone with information is asked to contact," Robles states, pushing for leads that might soon connect this lost patient with his family, with his past.
