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    This lady dies in the waiting room at the hospital...2 people even called 911 from inside the hospital but everyone ignored her!!! Watch the video and listen to what a jackass the male operator is..."911 is for emergency only"....Yea that's why the woman died, asshole...
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    That's really sad. I can't imagine loosing a loved one under such circumstances!
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    Yea and her boyfriend had to sit there and watch her die while she was being ignored by anyone who could have helped her. There needs to be serious penalties for the hospital and the 911 operators who ignored her.

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    Meh, happens quite often. People go to ERs for stupid shit, which means that they get backlogged with people who have the sniffles. This is a huge miscarriage of hospital duty, but not that surprising.

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    That is fucked up!

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    Wtf. Poor woman.

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    Yeah that sucks, but I'm not completely surprised. I've sat in ER's for 3-4 hours before...granted I wasnt dying and would hope that I wouldnt sit there that long if I were but...

    They are supposed to take patients based on urgency..not first come first serve....but many do not.

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    I would have spit my damn blood all over the floor if they wern't helping me. I'll be damned if I just sit there to be ignored and die.

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    Yeah- that hospital SHOULD be under scrutiny!!! That's not right.

    Remember the movie Pay it Forward, when the little girl is having an asthma attack and she can't breath so another patient forces the staff to help her at gunpoint?

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    Something like this happened locally when a man came in the ER after having a seizure (or something)...he had not one, but TWO additional seizures in the ER and ended up dead because he wasn't a "priority" case.

    Yeah, the hospital ended up paying out the ass for that one. Idiots.

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    911 is a joke. I guess if it's an "interesting" case they'll help just because of nosiness. I'm not going to get into my opinion of 911 operators on here, but that was really shitty of the hospital. Obviously if she's vomiting blood there's a problem. It's a growing issue though really. Too many people "crying wolf" and looking for attention causes the workers to not take every case seriously like they should. My grandma used to go to the emergency room claiming she had a migraine so that she could get her fix of morphine and unfortunately my mother has abused it as well. Then you have the people who don't want to go to work and need an excuse. It happens too often around here.

    I guess if so many people didn't go to the emergency room for non-emergencies, the staff might take each person's care more seriously. We all know that they should with every person, but it's kind of human nature to say "oh she's just someone else looking for attention".

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    That's just wrong. How could the medical staff just sit there and do nothing while this woman was dying?

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    Yea I understand about the "crieng wolf" thing, I really do, but the woman was vomiting blood and on the floor from the pain. How could the hospital staff even think "oh, she just wants attention"?

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    I am keeping this womans family in my thoughts, but I cannot click to read the link, just cannot... Yeah, i am weak. Just hearing what the pps have said, it sounds like a travesty. Just because people cry wolf, is no reason to "assume" anyone for anything. People in the er still have a job, if I worked at micky ds, and 4 people ordered chicken nuggets, I wouldnt automatically give the 5th nuggets too just because the other people had them,kwim? The hospital obviously did not do there job. Sorry, for grammer, gotta wiggler on my lap
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    I can hardly sum up the words to express my anger...How could someone let a human being die!!!She was vomiting blood for christ sakes!!!Karma will come back around for the man that ignored her...errrrrrr

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    Damn. Our medical system has some serious problems.

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    thats why they're SUPPOSED to triage each patient, check symptoms, blood pressure, etc. basically pre-screen to see who is actually an emergency and who can wait an hour.
    apparently, somebody fucked up the system, but it doesn't sound like this hospital had a very good track record to begin with, they were already going to lose funding if they didnt shape up in (i think) 15 days?
    i can already see a wrongful death suit in the works, as well as gross negligence, etc.

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    how does that song go... 911 is a joke....


    I have been in the ER for twice deep cuts that needed stitches. I was lucky I was not in great pain or in danger of dying. The ER was full of clowns and it took hours to get to me.

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    When my mother passed she went the ER three hours before she died. She didn't get seen until about an hour prior to her death.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LuckiCharm View Post
    Yea I understand about the "crieng wolf" thing, I really do, but the woman was vomiting blood and on the floor from the pain. How could the hospital staff even think "oh, she just wants attention"?
    Don't get me wrong, I TOTALLY agree. People SHOULD still do their job and take EVERY case seriously. In fact, I think that the people involved should be charged with manslaughter.

    Here's an example of what I meant. When my son was a baby, he got sick and would not stop vomiting. He was very dehydrated and puked about 15 times that day. I took him to the ER and waited forever to get him in. He puked several times in the waiting room and OTHER patients were helping me clean him & the waiting room up while the staff did nothing. When they finally got him in the back, the nurse was moving about as slow as a human could move and was rolling her eyes and telling me that he looked fine to her. That was, until he projectile vomited across the room and it splatted all in her hair and on her back. Only then of course did they run tests and found that he had rotovirus. He ended up staying in the hospital for 5 days hooked to IV's.

    My point is, 911 operators and hospital staff just do not take people seriously anymore. Either that or they just don't give a shit. And it's not going to change until: 1. People stop going to the er for frivolous stuff, and 2. Whoever is in charge of those organizations forces everyone to follow the proper guidelines (which is what really needs to happen).

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    That's just horrible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by virgoamm View Post
    That's just wrong. How could the medical staff just sit there and do nothing while this woman was dying?
    In an LA hospital where half the population uses three or four emergency rooms as the family doctor?

    That medical staff wasn't sitting around doing nothing.

    The fact that she was arrested while dying... doesn't surprise me.

    California is a complete fucking mess and an excellent example of what happens when the populace is in denial about reality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blayze View Post
    thats why they're SUPPOSED to triage each patient, check symptoms, blood pressure, etc. basically pre-screen to see who is actually an emergency and who can wait an hour.
    apparently, somebody fucked up the system, but it doesn't sound like this hospital had a very good track record to begin with, they were already going to lose funding if they didnt shape up in (i think) 15 days?
    i can already see a wrongful death suit in the works, as well as gross negligence, etc.
    Yep. And like many other hospitals they will simply close the ER room leaving LA with one less like so many other hospitals have done.

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    This particular hospital has had problems for what seems like forever. I heard a woman on a radio talk show over a year ago. She was a retired schoolteacher who had lived in the area for most of her life.

    She said the people who lived in the area have a nickname for Martin Luther King Hospital. The nickname is "Killer King."

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    Quote Originally Posted by greenidlady1 View Post
    When my mother passed she went the ER three hours before she died. She didn't get seen until about an hour prior to her death.
    Awww Green, that's horrible

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