Only SOME? How about everyone who saw her lying there?
The office of the city's medical examiner said it was still trying to determine why Green died. She had been brought to the hospital suffering from agitation and psychosis, city officials said.Agitated delirium. Crack.
P.S. It is a GOVERNMENT RUN HOSPITAL.
Edmund Drummond: So at 9:15 this morning I rang for my nurse...Watch it and think about Hillarycare.
Bock: Rang for your nurse?
Edmund Drummond: To ensure one full hour of uninterrupted privacy.
I was just about to post this myself- that was disgusting to watch.
Great. And I'm sure there will be plenty of competent, dedicated people lining up to apply for these jobs, which entail managing the unmanageable with both hands tied behind your back by idiotic laws and regulations, while working long hours in a very dangerous neighborhood.
and while i totally believe that security guards would do this, the doctor's actions surprised me. the ones who work at these places are total bleeding hearts usually. which makes me think this doc knew this woman and simply dismissed this as an act.
Government-provided health care at its "finest," brought to you by the Democrat Party. It's not called the Donkey (Jackass) Party for nothing.
The sad thing is, if this poor soul was a voter, she probably voted for Democrats.
It is established in law that if one is ignored in a hospital initially -- that is, no acknowledgement of injury is made -- that neglect even leading to death is not malpractice.
At least, this is how it was explained to me by probably the only honest lawyer in Florida, who counseled me when a hospital ignored my seriously injured son (who thankfully did not die).
The first question was "who is your insurance provider" and when the answer was, "I'm self insured" we were told to wait. And wait. And wait. Until my son threw up in the triage nurse's face.
By that time I had raised so much hell trying to get my son treated that I was arrested for disturbing the peace (hence the discussion with the attorney later).
Yes, it is a strategy. Maybe something like this will begin to put a stop to it.
But, until then, I have, of course, lost all faith in the hospital business.
Fortunately, my son was transferred to a private hospital in another town and the subject of the bill did not even come up until we were checking him out. It was like night and day.
When I had to have hip surgery, due to a stress fracture, I was treated so badly, I felt like a prisoner in a concentration camp. I was left on the porta-potty for two hours the day after surgery. (They forgot me.) I could not use the ‘call’ button or even push the button for my pain meds. It was excruciating.
I was not given a sponge bath for five days. My teeth were not brushed for five days. The food was totally inedible - and in five days, I lost 18 pounds.
On the fifth day, after literally begging for a shower, I was again “forgotten” in the storage room shower, in a wheelchair, unable to move because of the pain meds. Two hours. No curtain - no towel - no shower stall. Just a shower head squirting me for two hours, surrounded with walkers, canes, wheelchairs, and equipment in a huge room.
The doctor had put a sign on the door (at my request): “No one is to touch this patient without first washing their hands”. (I seriously feared MRSA.) In five days, only twice did I ever see anyone wash their hands. They would walk in with gloves already on, and attend to my surgical area. What (and who) did those gloves touch before they entered my room and removed my bandages?
Every day there, I begged for fresh fruit. The day I was to be discharged, the dietician came in to my room with a banana in one hand, an apple in the other. He held them up, and said, “I hear you want fresh fruit. Which one do you want?”
It was the biggest nightmare of my life - and I will never enter a hospital again (electively). My knee has been bone on bone for over five years - you think I would volunteer to go back there again? It will be bone on bone for the rest of my life, rather than endure the horrible treatment again, that I suffered at the hands of uncaring, incompetent, health care workers.
And here is what really angers me. Guess what those five days cost my insurance company? Over $10,000 a day!
Our hospitals are in serious trouble, folks.
I saw the tapes.
Freakin unbelievable.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
I live near Kings County Hospital, which unfortunately has had a bad reputation. The news about this person who was left neglected didn’t surprise me at all.
Government health care strikes again. Barry Hussein wants to guarantee this level of care for every citizen in the USA.
Feel better?
Sheesh. You pay health care insurance premiums out the rear-end and this is the kind of service you get?
The buck stops at Bloomberg’s desk.
Kings County is a NYC owned and run Hospital. Shame on, Miguelito! And you think you should be POTUS.