disturbedme
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I am speechless. I just don't understand what the world is coming to. How disgusting.
People see her lying there, look at her, and walk away. And what's worse, that one person in the corner just sat there the entire time this happened - when she first fell over and then when she lay there not moving.
I am glad they are terminating the people who worked there who saw it happen but ignored it. I just can't wrap my mind around why person after person came in the room, saw her lying there, and then walked right back out.
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Peacesoul
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what a sad story. This happens every day not just in hospitals, but on the streets.
There was that story a month back about the old man who got hit by a car and no one helped him
The world is filled with unconscience idiots!
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Geneal
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No one ever thinks that something like this will happen to them or someone they know.
Like pulling over for an ambulance.....hardly anyone does that anymore either.
There are people who care...like us.
It is a sad commentary on how cynical and desensitized a portion of our population has become.
I for one am proud to not be one of them.
Hugs,
Geneal
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troutscout
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When you live in a society where we don't set rules for our children as toddlers....deliver to them everything they desire, put everyone on welfare and allow anyone else that just WANTS something to have it...we get what we deserve.
No one respects anyone....not their belongings, not their health, not their religion...our and don't get me started there....everything is wrong right now....thank God my wife and raised our kids without....video games, etc.
Trout
PS....we REQUIRE that our kids do community service for others...every month.
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kelmo
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I wholeheartedly agree, Trout. Thank you for raising sensitive, giving, children, who will be an example to all.
I'm a crossing guard, and I see and hear the hurtful things children say to each other.
I was in the hospital for pneumonia, an entire week, a few years ago. My first night, the man in the room next to me needed help. He wasn't getting it in time, so he got up and walked out his door. He died right outside my door. They took him to his bed and tried working on him for a while. But, he didn't make it.
The next morning, someone came up to visit him, and he was still in bed! His body hadn't been removed! The woman screamed and nearly fainted.
I remember that story about the woman dying in the ER. You almost have to have a mother like in Terms of Endearment.
disturbedme
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Kelmo - Wow, that's unbelievable about the guy in the room next to you. I can't believe they LEFT him in the bed/room that long.
Last year when I first got ill and went to the ER, I had to wait over four hours just to get in. It was hard having to wait so long. At the time I thought I was dying. I ask myself now what would happen if someone in worse shape than I had come in and had to wait THAT long?!
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lymebytes
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Can anyone here imagine seeing this woman on the floor and just taking a seat and doing NOTHING?
No one even tried to ask if she was ok, or ran for help INSISTING she was dying!
Is someone lying on the floor at this hospital so common that even the security guards don't flinch?
I really hope those involved were actually terminated!!!!!
They should be seriously punished for causing her death!!!!!
I'm not an attorney and profess I don't know much about the law, but wouldn't what they allowed to happen to her be along the lines of INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER?????
It is so sad, but angers me, at the same time, we have a health care system so broken, with no end in sight if and when it will ever be fixed, and it sure seems it's only getting worse by the day!!!!!
May God bless this poor woman and her family!!!!!
Love, Light, & Health, Jennie
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bettyg
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copying article here....
Woman who died on hospital floor called 'beautiful person'
Daughter, "I don't think I have the heart or mind to watch" the video
Esmin Green was involuntarily admitted June 18 for "agitation and psychosis"
Tape shows Green collapse, convulse and lie still; workers pass by, she dies *********************************
Group says staff falsified records to cover up incident; 7 workers fired or suspended *************************************
By Mary Snow and Ashley Fantz CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) --
To people around the world who have seen the video, Esmin Green is a symbol of a health-care system that seems to have failed horribly.
Fellow churchmembers say they served as a family for Esmin Green, shown in 2007, after she left Jamaica.
1 of 2 Green, 49, is shown rolling off a waiting room chair at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on June 19. She lands face-down on the floor, convulsing.
Surveillance video captures her lying on the floor for more than an hour as several hospital workers see her and appear to ignore her. She died there.
But to fellow members of her church, she was known as "Sister Green." Together, they served as a family for her in the decade after she left Jamaica for New York.
Green left six children in Jamaica -- the youngest now 14. She had been sending money home. Watch 'Sister Green' in church �
Her oldest daughter, 31-year-old Tecia Harrison, told CNN that she cannot bear to think of her mother's last moments.
"I haven't seen it, and I don't think I have the heart or mind to watch it because that's my mother there," Harrison said. "That's the woman who gave birth to me 31 years ago. I cannot watch that."
Green was involuntarily admitted to the hospital's psychiatric emergency department June 18 for "agitation and psychosis."
Friend Peter Pilgrim says he saw Green a few days before her death. He says she was struggling with losing her job at a day care center and had been forced to move out of her apartment.
"Esmin Green is a beautiful person," he said. "She has a good heart. She loved people, and she loved children."
Tape shows woman dying on waiting room floor Green's pastor says she had been hospitalized with emotional problems once before and recently appeared to be in distress again. So the pastor called 911, a decision that haunts her.
Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the New York Civil Liberties Union, which released the surveillance video of the incident Tuesday.
Her collapse came at 5:32 a.m. June 19, the NYCLU said, and she stopped moving at 6:07 a.m. During that time, according to the organization, workers at the hospital ignored her.
At 6:35 a.m., the tape shows a hospital employee approaching and nudging Green with her foot, the group said. Help was summoned three minutes later. Watch the surveillance video �
In addition, the organization said, hospital staff falsified Green's records to cover up the time she had lain there without assistance. ********************************************
"Contrary to what was recorded from four different angles by the hospital's video cameras, the patient's medical records say that at 6 a.m., she got up and went to the bathroom, and at 6:20 a.m. she was 'sitting quietly in waiting room' -- more than 10 minutes since she last moved and 48 minutes after she fell to the floor."
The medical examiner's office says it is still trying to determine what caused Green's death.
Her medical records will be the focus of an investigation.
Hospital documents say she was "awake and sitting quietly" at the very moment she was actually struggling on the floor.
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which oversees the hospital, released a statement Tuesday saying it was "shocked and distressed by this situation.
It is clear that some of our employees failed to act based on our compassionate standards of care."
James Saunders, a spokesman for the corporation, said seven employees have been fired or suspended: ************************************
the chief of psychiatry, chief of security, a doctor, two nurses and two security guards.
A Health and Hospitals Corporation spokeswoman said it was aware of the discrepancies in Green's record when it began the preliminary investigation June 20.
The corporation pledged to put "additional and significant" reforms in place in the wake of the death.
A federal investigation is also under way, looking into abuse allegations at Kings County that were detailed in a lawsuit in 2007.
In May 2007, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Mental Hygiene Legal Service sued Kings County in federal court, alleging that conditions at the facility are filthy.
Patients are often forced to sleep in plastic chairs or on floors covered in urine, feces and blood while waiting for beds, the groups allege, and often go without basic hygiene such as showers, clean linens and clean clothes. ******************************************
The lawsuit claims that patients who complain face physical abuse and are injected with drugs to keep them docile.
The hospital, the suit alleges, lacks "the minimal requirements of basic cleanliness, space, privacy, and personal hygiene that are constitutionally guaranteed even to convicted felons."
Among the reforms agreed to in court Tuesday by the hospital are additional staffing; checking of patients every 15 minutes; and limiting to 25 the number of patients in the psychiatric emergency ward, officials said.
In addition, the hospital said it is expanding crisis-prevention training for staff; expanding space to prevent overcrowding; and reducing patients' wait time for release, treatment or placement in an inpatient bed. *****************************************
this makes me so sick! i hope they punish all responsible and the higher CEOs for letting this happen! this poor family.
as a daughter, i would not want to watch the final moments of my mom's life end UNATTENDED AND LACK OF CARE!
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cantgiveupyet
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i can believe this. When i first got sick i was in so much pain and laid down on the floor of the ER room, crying out, not one person said a word to me, not one.
I kept begging to be seen. Finally I was bumped because the woman at the desk saw me on the floor!!! I really thought my kidneys were failing that night.
My first ER visit in the mountains, there was a guy with a bright read face, couldnt even sit up. I actually helped try to get him a bed. Thats just the person that I am. Probably had a TBI.
Geneal- no one here stops for ambulances either. My mom remarked to me a few weeks ago, why isnt anyone pulling over. I had to inform her its the new thing to do now, they dont do that anymore :-(
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