Woman Dies, Ignored, on Waiting Room Floor

[Kat]

just saw this on the news
horrible

http://www.newser.com/story/31445.html?refid=rss_all_default

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/waiting.room.death/index.html

Recently uncovered surveillance footage shows a woman collapsing in a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital, then lying on the floor for more than an hour while hospital staff ignored her. Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting for treatment for almost 24 hours when she collapsed at 5:32am and lay convulsing on the floor. She stopped moving at 6:07am, and was found dead at 6:35. The hospital has suspended or fired six employees, CNN reports. Records appear to have been falsified to cover up the incident, saying Green went to the bathroom at 6am, and was “sitting quietly” at 6:20. The tape and records were found by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which is suing for negligence. “Look, I saw the film like everybody else, and I was—horrified is much too nice a word,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

[lilsensa]

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That's fucked. What if that was your mom or grandma..I hope heads roll.

[88Mariner]

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brooklyn? kinda suprised she didn't get robbed, too.

[DIDI]

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It news here as well. It was totally terrifying that it could happen.!!

[superdave]

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I'm not a lawyer, but the people who falsified the records and ignored her should be put in jail. Her family should also sue the hospital for wrongful death. Also, the governor should apologize to the family and make some changes so it doesn't happen again.

[88Mariner]

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^ what did the governor have to do with anything?

[day_for_night]

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pretty sure they're (the govenors) in charge of health care for their state, no? its just like the CEO of a company appologizing for employee negiligence...guy at the top is responsible, no matter what.

[CactusBeats]

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pretty sure they're (the govenors) in charge of health care for their state, no? its just like the CEO of a company appologizing for employee negiligence...guy at the top is responsible, no matter what.

If that's truly the case then every governor in the US should be held in contempt for a health care system that allows 18,000 underinsured people die each year due to having been denied the coverage they need (and paid for, by the way) by their insurance companies. That doesn't even begin to count those people who commit the crime of being uninsured with cancer or other serious diagnosis.

In the US, healthcare is a privilege, not a human right. We take our most valuable "commodity" - human beings and only insure them if they can obtain employment where the employer is still lucky enough to be able to afford to insure their employees to a reasonable extent. Otherwise, your life ain't worth squat.

Capitalism at its finest = commodified human life.

I wonder who pays the governor's health care premiums?

[Dhar_2]

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some people have a very warped view of the value of human life!!

[88Mariner]

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pretty sure they're (the govenors) in charge of health care for their state, no? its just like the CEO of a company appologizing for employee negiligence...guy at the top is responsible, no matter what.

that would mean like ... i dunno.... the head of the hospital? Where's directing the personal responsibility to those whithin the zone of that woman?

[day_for_night]

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^
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they fired them i think.

[Garrick]

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this reminds me of an elderly guy that was hit by a car about a month ago (in detroit i think?). he laid immobile in the middle of the road and cars drove by him, people walked by him and stared at him, a guy on a bicycle even did a circle around him and they all did nothing for him. no excuse to stand there and watch someone die. at least make a phone call or scream for help. jesus.

[unkownartist]

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