[JoeProBono]

In a 2003 photo, Joaquin Rivera plays a guitar during a Good Friday processional. Rivera was robbed last weekend as he was dying in the waiting room of an Philadelphia emergency room

[norraad]

Whether we pay or not, we’re on our own, healthcarewise, bone up on nutrition info, etc. , your gonna need it.

[iowamark]

Rivera had walked to the Northeast Philadelphia hospital late Saturday from his home a few blocks away after pain started shooting down his right side.

He probably felt safer living near the hospital.

It is sad that he was robbed after his death, but the real tragedy seems to be that he was forced to wait for so long unsupervised. He had classic heart attack symptoms.

[rightly_dividing]

Where I live, chest pain patients are seen immediately, no matter how many folks are ahead of them.

[Darteaus94025]

“The homeless are just like us”.

- A liberal

[SunkenCiv]

A school counselor suffering an apparent heart attack died in a Philadelphia emergency room after waiting nearly 80 minutes for help -- and a trio of homeless drug addicts nearby stole his watch... Joaquin Rivera, 63, died before seeing a triage nurse at Atria Health's Frankford Campus

Thanks JoeProBono.