Posted on 11/09/2012 10:38:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
When 23-month-old Lucie Linforth became ill earlier this month with a fever and what her parents thought might be a chest infection, her father took her to their family doctor. While they say she looked "extremely poorly" and her lips were turning blue, the receptionist told them to wait. And wait they did -- for more than hour.
According to the girl's father, Eric Linforth, 33, he went up to the reception desk four or five times during a 70-minute period of time, and was told to sit back down without anyone even giving his daughter a glance. At one point he was shown a sign that said anyone who was being abusive to the staff would not be seen. Finally, as the poor girl sat there physically deteriorating, he told them to call an ambulance. It was too late.
An investigation is underway although her death isn't being treated as suspicious, according to the Daily Mail. But Lucie's family is working to prevent such a tragedy from happening to others, and so far their Facebook page has garnered support from more than 30,000 people. They say won't stop until they receive some justice and see some changes in the system.
It obviously won't bring Lucie back; nothing will. But hopefully her story will prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again.
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Socialism is death. RIP.
The good news is if the Death Panels are effective enough to reduce the life expectancy by 10 yrs, SocSec and Medicare become financially sound!
The man expresses a real concern and you're saying: "Hey, forget that worry. We have political concerns here."
In any ER in south Texas (the new mexifornia), no matter how ill you are you’ll wait and wait while mestizo after mestizo go before you for “critical” care of everything from unchecked diabetes to an earache. We were new to the area so had no regular physician yet; I had pneumonia and waited four hours behind those parasitic freeloaders.
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