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LaTimes.com : 'Complainer' dies in hospital E.R. due to indifferent staff.
latimes.com — 'Complainer' dies in hospital E.R. as a result of indifferent emergency care staff. In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a complainer. "Thanks a lot, officers!," an emergency room nurse told LA County police who brought in Rodriguez after finding her crying for help near the hospital.
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- martalli, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"It's an indictment of everybody," he said. "If this woman was in pain, which she appears to be, if she was writhing in pain, which she appears to be, why did nobody bother … to take the most minimal interest in her, in her welfare? It's just shocking. It really is."
It would seem the county commissioner being quoted has never worked in an emergency department before. People come in angling for narcotic meds all the time. Back pain, headache, and abdominal pain are favorite complaints. All those people crying wolf have led to a very skeptical ER staff, both at that hospital and everywhere else. - RightHand, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4"Parked in the emergency room lobby in a wheelchair after police left, she fell to the floor. She lay on the linoleum, writhing in pain, for 45 minutes, as staffers worked at their desks and numerous patients looked on. Aside from one patient who briefly checked on her condition, no one helped her. A janitor cleaned the floor around her as if she were a piece of furniture. A closed-circuit camera captured everyone's apparent indifference."
Only in Amer...... - esoterroriffik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I guess the triage nurse didn't see Sicko yet.
- SylvyrPhoenix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This happens more frequently than people realize in this country. Hopefully this woman's death helps to bring about serious health care reform, so that the horrible way that she died will not be in vain.
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