Here is a link to the article at NRO Life & Death in LA
... In fact, I've instructed coworkers that even if I get shot in the waiting room at King/Drew, they're to call an ambulance and have me taken somewhere else.
I'll close with an anecdote: When police officers respond to shootings in Los Angeles, they must advise their watch commanders of the victim's condition so the appropriate detectives can be notified. I was once on the phone with my watch commander as I watched paramedics load a shooting victim into an ambulance. "How's he look?" asked the lieutenant.
"Not that bad," I said, "but they're taking him to King."
"Okay," he said. "I'll call Homicide."
That's a good one. In it's infancy King was this mable laden edifice to government programs for the poor. Within a couple of years that poor had defaced every ince of that marble. Martin Lutther King hospital, housing projects and give-aways to illegals taught me all I needed to know about the nanny-state mentality. If it makes no sense at all, do it.
"Okay," he said. "I'll call Homicide."
Ohhhh that hospital! Yvonne Braithwaite Burke has one hell of a nerve.
The only reason why I mentioned Torrance Memorial is because my father died there. They were the most rude, hateful, nasty people I've ever seen in a medical setting. "Hurry up and die, we need the bed"! My recommendation is Harbor UCLA. They're county, but imo, they're the best. When my mom was admitted, they got a couple of decent sized chairs and blankets so I could stay with her. We knew she was dying, but they did everything to make her comfortable, and try and improve her condition. I said no to life support however, and they respected that.
My son was hit by a car a couple of years ago, and they transported him to Harbor. They were shorthanded, and so I had to hold my son down while the doctor irrigated his jaw. Bleeech. However, they were as efficient as possible (lots of cops roaming the halls-there was a gang shooting that night, or something), and they have 2 different ER's. One for adults, another for pediatrics. They were very efficient, though.