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** In the seventh episode of first season, this happens to {{spoiler|Janet York}}.
** Season seven's villains love this -- assassins working for them kill both {{spoiler|[[The Dragon|Colonel Ike Dubaku]]}} and {{spoiler|[[The Mole|Ryan Burnett]]}} this way after they've [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outlived their usefulness]].
** This is [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] in season eight -- CTU release a news bulletin saying that the very dead {{spoiler|Farhad Hassan}} is alive and has been taken to hospital in the hope that the villain will send one of his men to finish him off, who they can then capture.
** Later in season eight, the wounded {{spoiler|Samir Mehran}} is killed by an assassin disguised as an EMT as he's being loaded into an ambulance.
* In an episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'', Carl ends up in a hospital after being hit with a bullet during a shootout. A shooter, seeking revenge for his relative who Carl recently arrested, dresses up as a doctor and sneaks into the hospital room intent on killing Carl. {{spoiler|Steve sneaks up behind the shooter and knocks him out with the metal squatting pan.}}
* An unusual humorous (if morbidly so) example occurs in ''[[Rescue Me]]'', in which a character suffering from kidney cancer awakens from a musical [[Dream Sequence]] gone awry to find a well-meaning uncle attempting to smother him as an act of mercy because the doctors say he's taken a turn for the worse.
* This is attempted at the end of the ''[[Grimm]]'' pilot.
* ''[[Leverage]]'', "The Beantown Bailout Job." {{spoiler|The bank manager}} behind the whole scam is on his way to the hospital to kill the only witness, who's lying in a coma... only to find the Massachusetts State Police waiting for him when he arrives.
* ''[[The X-Files]]''. After A.D. Skinner is shot Scully thinks this has happened to him when she finds his room empty and the police guards missing. It turns out he's being transferred to another hospital. She decides to accompany Skinner there in the ambulance, which is just as well as that's where the attempted murder occurs.
** And Skinner himself attempts to do this to the comatose Mulder in "Deadalive", thinking he is saving Scully's unborn child by doing so. It fails, but ends up saving Mulder from a life of alien replication.
* ''[[Castle]]''. In season one, this almost happens to a man in witness protection - {{spoiler|luckily, it turns out just to be a trap, and our heroes catch the would-be assassin.}}
* In ''[[The Pretender]]'' Miss Parker is sent to kill {{spoiler|Sydney's twin Jacob}}, who was in a persistent vegetative state after {{spoiler|a car [[Make It Look Like an Accident|accident]] caused by him wanting to leave The Centre. She [[Faking the Dead|faked his murder]] with Sydney's help.}} In a later episode {{spoiler|this was found out, which lead to sweepers were sent in to [[Killed Off for Real|do the job properly]]. They did not arrive on time.}}
* After being shot, ''[[The Mentalist]]'''s Bosco nearly died this way. Luckily, his [[Action Girl]] friend/co-worker/one true love, Teresa Lisbon manages to stop the shooter in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. {{spoiler|Poor Bosco dies anyway, but at least he and Lisbon get to have their [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] before he does.}}
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''[[The Fungi From Yuggoth]]''. In the playtesting of the first adventure "The Dreamer", the [[PC|PCs]] entered Paul LeMond's hospital room to find the cultist Clarence Rodgers strangling him. Rogers had infiltrated the hospital dressed as an orderly.
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