Wednesday, June 13, 2007

American Health Care

This one's about a woman that died last May in Los Angeles. You might already be saying "Ok, people die". She even died in a hospital. But let's face it, that happens every day. Well here's the catch. She died, waiting in the Emergency Room, with a perforated bowel and was bleeding from the mouth. Authorities, both at the hospital and at 911 dispatch, refused to help this woman because they thought it was not and emergency. NOT an emergency. This woman was vomiting blood, but hey, that's normal, it can wait. What the hell was this hospital thinking? If you don't wanna deal with emergencies all day, don't work in a frigin emergency room!
To make things worse, when police finally arrived to take her to another hospital, they instead arrested her on a parole violation. I can understand if a serial killer or rapist is bleeding to death on a hospital floor, let them die, they deserve it. But this woman violated her parole. Put her in a hospital bed and handcuff her to it, she ain't going anywhere. But i guess it was a slow crime day in the city of angels and this one couldn't wait.
The head of the hospital was sent home on an extended leave of abscence. Which in slap on the wrist terms means, "Go home, take some sun, come back when this blows over".
The head of the hospital, the employees in the emergency room, and the 2 dispatchers that refused to help, should all lose their jobs and never be allowed to get a job in this line of work or any related line of work ever again.
Gotta love the American health care system.

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