http://news.aol.com/story/_a/video-s...01115509990001

I could not believe she layed ther an hour and nobody did a thing to help her.

Sickening.



In the video, it looks like it's only minutes, but it was reported in the news she was on that floor an hour, and then her chart they reported she was up and moving (wrong) and used the restroom (also wrong).

I wonder if bystanders in a case like this could be charged with anything?

charge them with being self serving idiots

Unfortunately, I can believe that patients can die in ER. Such also happened in Los Angeles (last year):



http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/s...12782&catid=82

Only in areas or jurisdictions where "Good Samaritan" laws have been enacted can a bystander be charged. Such laws, in effect, also protect those who assist from blame or fault if something goes wrong.

Yep - a dear friend of mine died like that after many hours in the ER waiting room at Cook County Hospital. They said she was over-reacting to her claims of having a heart attack - to be patient. Her husband was a Chicago fireman too, and she had three small children. He was completely devastated.

My heart breaks for that poor woman in the video - she had no one in her life who cared about her.

I DO NOT want to go out in that manner. My mother died strapped to a bed with hospital staff yelling at her to behave. At least she was covered and it happened quickly. They didn't splash my mother's dead body, legs spread apart, all over the TV screens as news. I hope her relatives in Jamaica don't see that footage. I would have been even more horrified if that were my relative.

The other person in the waiting room did nothing, too. Just sat there. Sadly, this does not surprise me.

We had a horrible experience when my Dad was in the hospital for the last time. Unbelievable lack of compassion AND quality care. It absolutely contributed to his death.

I normally do not have "words" with people but I did with one nurse who ignored his cries for help. I witnessed it from down the hall (I could hear him yelling for help when I got off the elevator). She was seated just outside his door working on charts. Ignored him completely. Only when I walked up and asked her if she was deaf did it compel her to get up off her sorry butt and see what he needed. He was sitting straight up in the bed (someone had left his adjustable bed in this position) and he could barely breathe. He was beet red and gasping for breath by the time I got there. I reported her to the nursing supervisor and made a stop by the offices on my way out. Oh, and I also found her (the nurse) and gave her a piece of my mind....it was not a pretty conversation.

My Dad felt better that I had lamblasted her and reported her to the charge nurse.

The hospital was Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, GA and I would not even consider taking my cats there much less another family member. I'll drive to the next county, thank you.

OMG Kelly, I'm sorry you have to carry that memory. I have a love/hate relationship with the hospital that locked my mother on a closed psych ward and eventually "killed" her. I worked there for many years and new the staff well. I also knew the tremendous pressure the nurses were under and how easy it was to become immune to the sound of screams and cries when you hear it all day long, day after day.

You may have blown out that woman's eardrum, but you certainly showed your father how much you loved him before he left this world. I'll bet it was ugly - the conversation, that is.

Here's more on this story,
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/hos...rss_topstories

This story just sickens me. To think of that poor woman's last moments on this earth......she did not deserve that. My heart goes out to her family.

I hope the workers who ignored her and the people who falsified the records are all punished to the fullest extent of the law.

I just can't believe what a "cold" world we live in.

Thank you for posting the pic of Ms. Green. She looks happy. I'll remember her that way. I suspect she'd prefer people to remember her alive. It's a shame she was supporting her children back home and had a church family here.

From the video, I thought she was "just another crazy homeless woman" the general public despises. It's really a shame someone from her church family couldn't have stood by her side in her time of need.