Man Dies@Hospital Waiting 17 Hours For Admittance

[DudeAsInCool]

Man Found Dead on Hospital Lounge Couch

Saturday, July 24, 2004

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio — A man was found dead on a couch in a hospital lounge, and a nurse told police that nobody had checked on him for at least 17 hours because he appeared to be asleep.

"It's just unbelievable," his wife, Robin Johnson, said Friday. "Somebody out at the hospital didn't notice that a man was laying there for such a long period of time and not moving? Why didn't anybody check?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,126913,00.html

[DudeAsInCool]

:reallymad:

[Shawn]

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

That's a stretch. thumbsdown

[Wolfie]

I wonder if he had medical insurance.

[Umma]

poor man... :(

[Warflower]

What the? :angry:

[Malicious Intent]

Brings a whole new meaning to patient.

I always pegged "patients not dieing whilst waiting" as a benefit of private healthcare. I guess this was for a different reason though.

[Redneck4sure]

I wonder if he had medical insurance.

Prolly had the same HMO that I do. :(

[ASUmusicMAN]

Wow....That's bad but not suprising.

Working in an ER and actually having my job as bring the patients from the waiting room to the actual ER someone could lie there for days without anyone doing anything. Once you are initially screened, then you it is up to fate that sicker people than you don't show up...cause if they do they have priority. In my particular hospital (which will be nameless) we also give ER priority to kids, espeicially newborns, and expactant mothers. Now is 17 hours an outrageous wait...yes of course. But you have to realize that when I have 50 people in line, I yell out someone's name and they don't come for whatever reason they go to the bottom of the pile, because there are five guys just like him waiting.

For those wondering insurance status doesn't factor into any initial screening. ERs are required to treat anyone with anything...hence why lines are long, it costs a shitload, and how most ERs drive their hospitals debt.

As for just a taste of how bad the whole insurance situation is I can talk about thigns have happened in my hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. We have many unique ER issues in this city (such as illegal immigrants using it as clinic, lack of funding, having only one tramua one center) that it is COMMON for people with bleeding faces, severed fingers, i've even seen a compound fracture have to WAIT for more than six hours. Now I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want my bone sticking out of me for six hours...ouch.

[DudeAsInCool]

Now I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want my bone sticking out of me for six hours...

Depends on the situation

[ASUmusicMAN]

oooooh...daaaamn man