Woman Died Unattended on Hospital Floor

I'll be pissed if i am the patient's family members.  They usually don't take the patients seriously but not even when the patient was lying on the floor for hour....boo....medical sucks in here! the security guard sucks too~~~~~ 


City hospital officials are promising an overhaul at a Brooklyn
psychiatric ward where a woman collapsed on the floor after waiting
nearly a day to be seen and lay dying for another hour before getting
medical attention.

Video from a surveillance camera recorded the patient's agonizing death at Kings County Hospital on June 19.

Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly
24 hours when she toppled from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lay writhing,
face down on the floor.

Her collapse barely caused a ripple. Other patients waiting feet
away didn't react. Security guards and a member of the hospital's staff
appeared to notice her prone body at least three times, but made no
visible attempt to see if she needed help.

In one case, a guard didn'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 fruitlessly overnight for a bed, stopped moving about a
half hour after she collapsed. She was already dead when someone on the
medical staff finally knelt down at her side.

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.

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