Woman dies in hospital waiting room, no one around her tries to help

would it make a diffrence if the women in the video were not black? health care in the united states sucks enough, peolple suck enough, maybe this aweful insident will be enough for people to get angry and do something.

wow she must really have been disliked by the locals

I had something similar happen to me at Kansas City Research Hospital. I took my mother there because she had been very sick and running a high fever for 3-4 days. I finally talked her into gong to the hospital. I had to help her to the car because she could barley walk. We lived approximately 45 miles from the hospital and by the time I got her there she was almost nonresponsive and was unable to get out of the vehicle. I went in and asked if someone could help me get my mom out of the vehicle. I was told by the nursing staff to go over to the security desk and ask for help. The only person there was an elderly gentleman. He told me that I needed to ask the nurses. They finally found a male nurse to help me and he was probably one of the rudest people I ever met. He acted like I was lying and he was angry that he had to help me. We finally got my mom in the building and they took her back to take her vitals. As aforementioned she was barley responsive. The nurse asked my mom to remove her coat so they could take her blood pressure. When my mom was unable to do so they proceeded to yell at her and tell her that if she wanted to receive treatment she would have to take off her coat. They refused to help her with it and I finally had to help her myself. She had a temp of 104. She asked if she could lay down and was told that they did not have a place for her to lay down and she would have to go back out to the waiting room. She was so weak that she was unable to sit up in the chair and eventually laid down in the floor. Nobody would help her. I finally got upset and with the help of a couple of people in the waiting room we managed to get my mom up off of the floor and back into her wheelchair. I took her out to the car and got her in by myself and proceeded to take her to another hospital. She had a seizure on the way to the other hospital. When we got there and I told them how horribly we were treated they were really shocked that anyone would be treated like that in a hospital. She ended up having gall bladder surgery. They told her that her gall bladder was so inflamed that it could have ruptured. She spent almost 2 weeks in the hospital. 2 weeks after she got home Kansas City Research hospital sent her a bill for taking her vital signs.

This makes me cry...My grandmother looks a bit like her, and I cant fathom how I would of felt if this happen to my grandma...

This is a normal thing at that hospital, that type of
patient with no INS. get treated last. I'm so sorry for her and her family but you can't sue because they took that right away from the patient.They should close the prison in Cuba and move that scum there and see what happens. Confession will come daily.OR collect the trillon
dollars we spent in Iraq from the oil profits and use that
money to better living here!!!!!

More reason when people ask why we should have Universal Healthcare we say...well you compare oil prices with the Europeans, why not this?

Me Too Frizzy.

Kitty Genovese, anyone?

Let's not allow this women's death to be in vain. If this isn't the epitome of what is wrong in this country with it's health care system than what is. Our systetm is failing and it is failing everyone. Maybe we need to look around to where it is working and if it means paying some moe money out of my paycheck to make sure the kids in our country have health care and our the citizens of our country our entitiled to a good education and people no longer have to worry about retirement then I say let's do it.

Apathy is our health care system. That woman died in a hospital. Was she in a bed being taken care of? NO. Did anyone take her pulse to see if she had died? NO, someone kicked her to see if she was dead. She did not have insurance.

I don't see where the complaints about health care are coming from... this woman died not from our horrendous health care system, but from the apathy of others...

Obviously she had no insurance. She was lucky to have been allowed to die inside. They could have put her in a cab and had her dumped like they do some people. Let us not help anyone that has nothing. How stupid would that be. Can't profit, Can't be bothered. My God, what have we become?

The lady in brown jumped into action once the stretcher came. But before that (when there was just some dead woman on the floor) she was relaxing. It's the life of another human...apparently that doesn't matter to some people. Bring out your dead.

Where the f*#@ is our society heading?!

she was black right ?

The United States is ranked #37 as a health system by the World Health Organization.slightly ahead of Slovenia. The U. S. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country but ranks 37 out of 191 countries according to its performance, the report finds." "World Health Organization Assesses The World's Health Systems," Press Release, WHO/44, June 21, 2000. http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-44.html
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar

it shows, in result, how people think. if this is a physical human in distress in a hospital, how do u think ppl are going to treat the environment they live in, the morals and ethics hide inside of them....its a shame, and to know these are grown ass humans, what are they passing onto their kids?!?! to be "moral human beings"???? riiiiiiighttt

Maybe they just assumed she was being "aggressively interrogated" by a Blackwater mercenary and didn't want to interfer?

When Pres. Bush claims we're not treating the POW's any worse then we treat Americans....apparently he is telling the truth!

And people wonder why international tourism to the States has gone down in recent years.

"You want to visit America?" asks one shocked European to another. "Good Lord! Why not go someplace a little safer, modern and more civilized? I hear Calcutta is nice this time of year..."

She should have been in a hospital. Oh wait, she was.

when i was working in nyc, i seen a lady jogging fall bust her head wide open , nobody tends to her, they act like they didnt even see her , they actually walked right over her.

Why does this sound familiar? :/ Another incident similar to this happen just last year, I think. Too many repeats.

"But she didn't have any insurance!"

This is horrific.

this is a terrible thing that happened. i hope actions are taken to prevent this in the future.

"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."

GOOD. May they not be allowed to be responsible for people in crisis, ever again.

We spend 12 Billion a month on the war in Iraq. I think we can spend it here on UNIVERSAL HEATHCARE FOR EVERYONE NOT EXCLUDING ANY AMERICAN!

Why are so many comments targetting "the system"? If a handful of individuals had done what is expected of them in the health care industry then "the system" would be working properly. The INDIVIDUALS are clearly to blame.

"It is clear that some of our employees failed to act based on our compassionate standards of care." That in itself sounds less than compassionate. A woman was lying on the floor for 45 minutes and when employees see this and walk away, you can't even begin to say that your "standards" are anything close to compassionate.

Coming to you from Tax-achusetts, no I mean forced-health-care-achusetts. I am a broke mother f_____, now on free care here in Ma. Anyone in this state will tell you nothing here is free, they will always find a way for you to pay. I suffer from some form of mental illness and frequent thoughts of suicide. Free care is sometimes at the bottom of what you might call health care. More so when it's mental health care. I was give an appointment to speak with someone two months after my primary care doctor found out I had thoughts of suicide.
This woman was treated as though she was less than human, I know how she felt. Pasted tense ASSHOLES!

Our healthcare system is in the Dark Ages. The indifference to human care is phenomenal when witnessed first hand.

The last time I was in the ER for a combined stomach virus and bacterial throat infection, I asked the nurse when I checked in what would happen if I passed out.

"We'd just put you in a gurney and put you back in line with everybody else."

Now THAT is TLC! Am I right?

That is crazy! how ignorant can humans get?

I see more and more of people not giving a fuck about anything just so long as its not their ass that's on the line. This reminds me of an incident that happened where a man was hit by a car and there were 5 witnesses and no one did anything. He died as a result. To add injury to insult, there were people that just drove past like nothing happened. WTF is wrong with people?

welcome to NYC health care!

Welcome to America!

Just because you have health insurance doesn't mean you'll get great service....

Health care begins with yourself. Don't depend on others to take care of you, even if you are paying for it....

You're just a number unfortunately.

The woman in the brown in disgusting.

Okay J_J, but who are you referring to as "they" who shouldn't be blamed?

If you watch the video, 2 security guards, several patients and a DOCTOR all see her lying on the floor and do nothing! A nurse kicks her to see if she responds a sees that she is dead. It is so sad that people just don't care!

The system is flawed but it is by no means the worst in the world. What is at fault here is that not a single person who claims to be a human took time to run over to her and check on her. That has nothing to do with heath care and everything to do with their heart.

If you were to rightfully blame the health care system it would be them going over there asking her if she had insurance and then not helping her because she didn't have any. They didn't do that. They didn't even bother to check on her for 45 minutes (right?).

Even so a hospital has to help someone no matter if they have insurance or not. It's the law. Payment and anything thereafter is handled thereafter when the patient is stable and well.

So I agree that th heath care system is flawed, I disagree that they are to be blamed for this situation.

I agree J_Jammer, no argument there but based on results aren't we both right?

That's not the health care system. That's poor humanity, and that's not something that only affects America.

Nice try, though.

Okay republicans, tell me again how we have the best health care in the world?