Posted on 01/26/2014 12:39:19 PM PST by Mad Dawgg
One New York man went to the hospital for a rash and died in the waiting room during an 8-hour-wait for care.
30-year-old John Verrier went to St.Barnabas Hospital's ER for a rash on Sunday nigh at 10 p.m. At 6:40 in the morning, a security guard discovered a dead 30-year-old John Verrier slumped over in his chair.
A worker from St.Barnabas Hospital says that he was cold, blue, and stiff and says that he may have been dead for several hours.
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Why go USB? Why not surgically implant a little micro-processor to monitor those vitals wirelessly? Hey, we can require them for anyone using the “Affordable Care Act” services!
/seriously, one day, I’ll have to refuse
I considered that, however, hospitals already have a heavy wireless load. If they could handle it, great.
At my local VA the wait is between 8 and 12 hours.
The ER doesn't have the resources to monitor and attend to everyone waiting in line. That's why there is a line -- there aren't enough resources to deal with that many patients. Yes, to some extent life-threatening situations in the line can be prioritized and seen immediately, but this is often obvious even without the vital signs being monitored. Additionally, vital sign monitoring would miss many types of deteriorating conditions and its usefulness in that context is limited.
While there are those that want that, in a typical ER, it would be far more practical to have reusable units that could just be hung around the neck and would lay on the chest or back, possibly with a little adhesive to keep them in the right spot.
They have long had similar devices for individual purposes, like non-invasive blood sugar readings for diabetics. But again the idea is to identify someone who looks okay, but is in a medical emergency.
“It doesn’t seem to say what he died from. Did I miss it?”
No, and as disturbing as this story is I think they’ve left out the most important part.
OK, we know nothing about this guy except that he was very young to just be dying all of a sudden.
They say he had a rash, well, it must have been pretty bad in some way or another for him to have gone to the hospital over it.
So, what did he die of? Is anybody, besides us, even asking the question?
Surely someone is asking, given that it might be communicable.
Herbert Bock: It is all rubbish isn't it. I mean... transplants, anti-bodies, we can produce birth ectogenetically, we can clone people like carrots, and half the kids in this ghetto haven't been inoculated for polio. We have established an enormous medical entity and we're sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal, nothing! The whole goddamn wretched world, strangulating in front of our eyes.
Lots of other great quotes, George C Scott, and the delectable Diana Rigg.
A reasonable thought. According to this, he did have a history of drug abuse, and even tho’ the family said he had been clean recently....
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=9406237
it is not unknown for IVDUs to shoot up in the rest-rooms while waiting to be seen at EDs in some NYC hospitals (or even on the wards if they are inpatients). Sad case anyway you look at it.
The Left will call this a success. The man came in ill and when he left he was no longer ill (he was dead but technically he was no longer ill). ObamaCare cured him. Sort of like when you quit looking for a job you are no longer considered “unemployed” as far as the gubmit’s concerned. Same deal here; if you’re dead you’re no longer sick. NEXT!
The downside to that is the hospital would start prioritizing the waiting list by need using the waiting room inputs. Could make it even worse.
Sounds like Canada. Very sad.
I’ve done some serious wait times in emergency rooms. The trick if you want to get in fast is say you can’t breath.
The old people I know around here always call an ambulance because they say they get seen sooner. I have to say I’ve always had to be taken to the ER under protest, by my husband. Mostly, I do my best to just not die at home. I hate the hospital. Last time I refused to be admitted and the doctor was not pleased. I just wanted some drugs so I wouldn’t die. The doctor told me that he has to tell most people they don’t have to be admitted and he was upset that I needed to be admitted, but didn’t want to.
I think he was more upset that I managed to not die at home. :)
“Surely someone is asking...”
Yes, I am sure you are right. Also given that he sat in an ER waiting room, alongside some presumably medically vulnerable people for however many hours.
I wonder if we will hear any more about this.
not anymore... i know this from first hand experience just three weeks ago... at least not in San Jose, CA... and i went to a reputable hospital...
Hospital is on 184th and Third Ave in the Bronx. Not a very good place to be sick or hospitalized. Been there 8 years ago when my niece was transferred there from another hospital. Scary place. People in waiting room talking about revenge on other people, etc.
Had to Google it because it’s so unimportant no one has mentioned its location. ERs run good and bad. Leaving someone sick for 8 hours isn’t so great - even if it was founded during the Civil War. It’s a borough hospital which always sends alarm signals.
If he was truly there for a “rash” the same result would have occurred except he would have been home when he died.
What I know about medicine you could put in a thimble, but dying from a “rash”? I’d take a WAG estimate and say maybe he’d broken out with Shingles around his torso. Shingles looks and feels like a severe rash. I’ve heard that if Shingles spreads up over one’s chest higher than their heart, it’s fatal.
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