Tragic Catch-911 for dying woman

[piemaker720]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...la-home-center

Rodriguez lay untreated on the ER lobby floor for 45 minutes before dying. A video camera captured the episode, showing that staffers and patients stood by as a janitor cleaned the floor around her. She was buried in Tehachapi on Tuesday

Well this difinately needs some butt yanking somewhere. Some of those ER workers can be so cold aand uncaring.

[Texasbelle]

This is tragic and shameful but not uncommon. I was in the ICU waiting room at a local hospital last week. There was a family sitting next to us who told the story of their mother being taken to a local ER with chest pain. She waited in the waiting room for well over an hour with chest pain. When her pain and symptoms got to the point of unbearable and there was still no sign of her being seen soon, her family took her outside to the parking lot and called 911. They told 911 the lady was having chest pain, where she was, and an ambulance immediately came. The ambulance picked her up and took her immediately inside the ER to a bed where it was discovered (duh) she was having a major heart attack.

I think the moral to all of these stories is there is beginning to be a lack of empathy in healthcare and don't drive yourself to the ER. Call 911.

[LateNight]

I've always wondered.. you watch these doctor shows.. or even the ER shows on like the Discovery channel. All these people get looked at right away. Now I've been in a few ERs here in this town.. and I've watched people SIT and WAIT for what seems like forever! including some folks with chest pain.

[piemaker720]

Originally Posted by LateNight

I've always wondered.. you watch these doctor shows.. or even the ER shows on like the Discovery channel. All these people get looked at right away. Now I've been in a few ERs here in this town.. and I've watched people SIT and WAIT for what seems like forever! including some folks with chest pain.

Your normal ER wait time is 4 to6 hrs. That is in the outside waiting room then waiting in the exam room for a doctor combined. But at LSU it is 12 to 14 hours wait.

[joepole]

Blame stupid laws that require our hospitals to treat anyone that comes into the emergency room. That's why the guy with a heart attack is in line behind the lady that has a runny nose and doesn't want to pay for a general practitioner.

No good deed goes unpunished, nor does any good-intentioned service/program go unexploited.

[piemaker720]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/23/tro....ap/index.html

Hospital in Los Angeles plagued by patient deaths, alleged substandard care
• As one patient screamed on ER floor, hospital employees ignored her
• Another patient waited four days in ER for care before family took him elsewhere
• Public hospital was built after Watts riots to improve health care for poor

Now state and federal regulators are threatening to close the hospital or pull its funding unless it can be improved, and Rodriguez has become a symbol of everything wrong with the facility derisively known as "Killer King

Read the whole article, it is shocking and sicking to know people are treated this way.

[joepole]

>close the hospital or pull its funding

That will make sure people get better care!!!

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Why not make hospitals just that ! Have trauma centers like LSU for the trauma like they do. I could see the State making that trauma center much larger and Bossier could dedicate one hospital for trauma too.

[piemaker720]

Originally Posted by Isaac-Saxxon

Why not make hospitals just that ! Have trauma centers like LSU for the trauma like they do. I could see the State making that trauma center much larger and Bossier could dedicate one hospital for trauma too.

It still does not matter if it is a trauma unit or not, a place is only as good as the workers make it. For them to ignore the woman laying ine the floor is horrible and cruel. Did yoy see the part about the man that sat there 4 days before his family took him somewhere else! Who sits in a place 4 DAYS. That is ridiculius. Even wait time at LSU is not that great, my ex-son-in-law fell off the top of a church roof and hit the side dump truck before hitting the ground. He was taken to LSU where he stayed in the ER for 14 hours.So unless the workers are really dedicated and does not treat it like a job that is the only thing that will help.