AmericanScott Posted 2 July 2008 Posted 2 July 2008 A shocking video has been released showing a woman dying at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.(Advertisement) The surveillance footage shows Esmin Green in the emergency room of the hospital on June 19. The 49-year-old had been waiting there for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat and fell face down on the floor. She was dead by the time someone on the medical staff finally came to her aid. Details of the death were disclosed by the hospital on June 20, but the case largely remained unnoticed until the video became public. The footage shows that Green's collapse barely caused a reaction - other patients waiting a few feet away do not go to her aid while security guards and a member of the hospital staff notice her prone body at least three times, but make no visible attempt to see if she needs help. One guard doesn't even leave his chair, rolling it around a corner to stare at the body, then rolling away a few moments later. Green, who had been involuntarily committed the previous morning, and had waited overnight for a bed, stopped moving about half an hour after she collapsed. The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the hospital, said six people have been fired as a result of the incident, including security personnel and members of the medical staff. The psychiatric unit at Kings County Hospital had already been a subject of complaints by advocates for the mentally ill. A state agency, the New York State Mental Hygiene Legal Service, and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit a year ago, calling the psychiatric centre "a chamber of filth, decay, indifference and danger". Both sides in the dispute went before a federal judge on Tuesday to jointly file papers in which the hospital system agreed to a series of reforms. Under the agreement, patients in the waiting room will now be checked every 15 minutes. Over the next four months, the hospital will attempt to shorten the average waiting time to around ten hours. A judge was scheduled to sign off on the agreement later. The tape of Green's wait has also been turned over to prosecutors. Green's medical records raised the possibility that someone might have tried to cover up the circumstances of the death. She had been brought to the hospital suffering from agitation and psychosis, city officials said. Green was born in Jamaica, and the city has agreed to fly her body home for burial. This is absolutely horrible! What do you expect at a Psychiatirc ward in Brooklyn though? Go on to Yahoo to see the video. It's very disturbing.
Webbo Posted 2 July 2008 Posted 2 July 2008 My wife's uncle is waiting for a triple heart bypass at the Glenfield. He's been in 3 times and they've sent him home 3 times, once he was all prepped, shaved chest had all the monitor sticker things stuck on him, sat around all day, only to told at the end of the day that his consultant doesn't perform operations on that day. When he spoke to the nurse she told him it wasn't unusual for people to sent home 4/5 times before they have their op.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 2 July 2008 Posted 2 July 2008 My wife's uncle is waiting for a triple heart bypass at the Glenfield. He's been in 3 times and they've sent him home 3 times, once he was all prepped, shaved chest had all the monitor sticker things stuck on him, sat around all day, only to told at the end of the day that his consultant doesn't perform operations on that day.When he spoke to the nurse she told him it wasn't unusual for people to sent home 4/5 times before they have their op. I delivered mail to a doctor's house in Cosby today. It was HUGE. Millionaires should live in houses like that... not doctors Having said that, they still get paid less than League 1 football players (which isn't saying docs don't get paid enough - footballers get paid too much!) Oh, and here's linky for the video mentioned by AmScot http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/hospital....=rss_topstories Make's the NHS seem less bad somehow.
hairy Posted 3 July 2008 Posted 3 July 2008 It is a truely horrifying story but one that has similarity to others in the UK of the elderly dying in hospital corridors while waiting to be seen. I delivered mail to a doctor's house in Cosby today. It was HUGE. Millionaires should live in houses like that... not doctors : Are you sure he / she is not a surgeon? Or a specialist consultant?
Trav Le Bleu Posted 3 July 2008 Posted 3 July 2008 Are you sure he / she is not a surgeon? Or a specialist consultant? Well he'd better be Dr Christian bloody Bernard of a surgeon imho to live in a house like this... palatial it was. 10 bedrooms easily (which, in these days of smaller families, I've never seen the point of.)
MikeyT Posted 3 July 2008 Posted 3 July 2008 I went docs about 7/8 months ago with really really bad heart palputaions and shortness of breath, so he referred me to the Glenfield general to have a 24hr heart monitor attached to me so we could hopefully find out what the problem was. Anyway to cut a story short, after a 4 month wait i finally got seen by the hospital. Now in my case it only turned out to be an ectopic heartbeat, but no one was to know that until the tests had been done, but to have to wait 4 months for something as serious as heart problems is ridiculous surely!
Flynny Posted 3 July 2008 Posted 3 July 2008 I went docs about 7/8 months ago with really really bad heart palputaions and shortness of breath, so he referred me to the Glenfield general to have a 24hr heart monitor attached to me so we could hopefully find out what the problem was. Anyway to cut a story short, after a 4 month wait i finally got seen by the hospital. Now in my case it only turned out to be an ectopic heartbeat, but no one was to know that until the tests had been done, but to have to wait 4 months for something as serious as heart problems is ridiculous surely! If they're not likely to kill you thats perfectly normal. I've been going in every couple of months for almost a year, only just got a diagnosis despite a battery of tests that showed nothing. Now they've got to confirm that with a simple monitor, but i've got to wait until August for that, and then until the results from that come through before I get some pills. Isn't an ectopic heartbeat just when your heart skips a beat occasionally? Have you not got owt else? They told me that almost everyone had that to varying degrees.
James. Posted 3 July 2008 Posted 3 July 2008 If they're not likely to kill you thats perfectly normal. I've been going in every couple of months for almost a year, only just got a diagnosis despite a battery of tests that showed nothing. Now they've got to confirm that with a simple monitor, but i've got to wait until August for that, and then until the results from that come through before I get some pills.Isn't an ectopic heartbeat just when your heart skips a beat occasionally? Have you not got owt else? They told me that almost everyone had that to varying degrees. I get palpitations. They don't happen that often anymore. Just now and again get one big beat out of sync. I used to get it a lot at university, it can be brought on by caffeine, over exertion, smoking, getting wasted, that sort of thing. Anyway I was kind of in denial about it for years but my paranoia got the better of me so I went to the GP about 2 years ago. Luckily I have BUPA cover through work and literally the next day I was seeing a top cardiologist for a full cardiological review. That included an ECG, stress test (stick you on a running machine for half hour), blood test, x-ray and 48 hour heart monitor. The tests came back fine, just something I have to live with. Now they rarely happen (probably because I'm not worried about them as much). So yeah if it is just what I had then it's perfectly normal, but at the same time I was f**king relieved I went through BUPA as you can't really out a price on having peace of mind.
MikeyT Posted 3 July 2008 Posted 3 July 2008 If they're not likely to kill you thats perfectly normal. I've been going in every couple of months for almost a year, only just got a diagnosis despite a battery of tests that showed nothing. Now they've got to confirm that with a simple monitor, but i've got to wait until August for that, and then until the results from that come through before I get some pills.Isn't an ectopic heartbeat just when your heart skips a beat occasionally? Have you not got owt else? They told me that almost everyone had that to varying degrees. True, but at the time i didnt know what they were and neither did the doc, hence sending me for the test.
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