The daughter DID try:
"As they waited, Monique Vance told Barrett, she twice asked nurses when her mother would see a doctor. The first time she asked, a nurse said her mother was next on the list to be called, Barrett said. The second time, a nurse told her that two ambulances had just arrived with more urgent cases.
"She said she was half-tempted to call 911 from the hospital just to get her mom back there," Barrett testified."
I know. I read the story. Asking twice in two hours is something I wouldn't do. I would DEMAND that my mother be given attention. I would ask to speak to the top person in charge. If they still didn't take my mother, I would threaten a lawsuit, and call the police if necessary.
I've had PLENTY of experience with heatlh care professionals....most of it pleasant, but I could write a book, literally write a book, on shoddy hospital care. Both of my parents became terminally ill a month apart, five years ago. My mother with lung cancer, and my father with a stroke and esophageal cancer. They ended up in a nursing home, side by side...died two months apart. Their hell lasted almost a year.
No way in hell would my mother wait for two hours in a emergency waiting room, with those symptoms.