What the hell is wrong with some people?

[Charismatic Enigma]

I read this story and it just fills me with anger.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19207050/?GT1=10056

Aren't paramedic suppose to help people who need medical attention? That's what they're paid to do!

[Toxicity]

That's ridiculous. Isn't there some kind of oath that doctors take to only help people and not hurt them or something?

The dispatcher, and the people working in the ER room should be forced to to face death the same way that woman did.

[Lert]

My lack of faith in humanity in general has once again been proven.

[Folken Fanel]

*puts gun to head and pulls the trigger*

As usual, this just goes to show how messed up our world is today. I'm not going to say anything else until I hear the reasons the nurses and doctors had for not treating her.

[Toxicity]

It states that the hospital she was in was "a troubled inner-city hospital". Inner cities are hell, so it wouldn't surprise me if the doctors or dispatch weren't fully qualified or competent at the task given to them.

[WhiteWingDemon]

My lack of faith in humanity in general has once again been proven.

[Folken Fanel]

It states that the hospital she was in was "a troubled inner-city hospital". Inner cities are hell, so it wouldn't surprise me if the doctors or dispatch weren't fully qualified or competent at the task given to them.

They're employees at a hospital. They better be qualified if they're giving people pills and cutting them open.

[Wingnut]

It states that the hospital she was in was "a troubled inner-city hospital". Inner cities are hell, so it wouldn't surprise me if the doctors or dispatch weren't fully qualified or competent at the task given to them.

Then they should have been the ones to transfer the woman to someplace that had doctors that were qualified instead of standing around picking their noses.

[SNT1]

inner city? in freakin Los Angeles? well, that's just asking for death there, boys and girls.

[Fritz Ashlyn]

While the entire thing is a crappy series of events that ended in the unnecessary death of a woman (quite possibly due to others' incompetence), the article leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

How many other people were in the ER waiting for care? How many doctors were on shift in the ER to handle that many potential patients? Had she (or did one of the people with her) sign her in properly when they arrived at the ER?

It's obvious that the woman could and would have lived if things had gone right, but I've personally sat in an ER waiting room in an agonizing stupor for about an hour and a half with a 104.3 fever waiting for my turn. My turn came (eventually and to great relief), and I was cared for.

[lalahsghost]

That's ridiculous. Isn't there some kind of oath that doctors take to only help people and not hurt them or something?

The dispatcher, and the people working in the ER room should be forced to to face death the same way that woman did.

Hippocratic Oath, IIRC -

To keep the good of the patient as the highest priority. There may be other conflicting 'good purposes,' such as community welfare, conserving economic resources, supporting the criminal justice system, or simply making money for the physician or his employer that provide recurring challenges to physicians.

[vaKuz]

I now have another reason to answer why some people are desperately seeking for jobs. Because almost half the jobs are given to idiots!

'Bastards coated bastards with bastard fillings' - Scrubs, Dr. Percival Cox.

[lalahsghost]

Oh, and it's spamming all of my news channels with this topic. It's important, I guess, but I'd rather hear about other depressing stuff, tbqh.

I will say that the officers that tried to haul her to the squad car before finding out she was dead need to be shot, and so to the tele-responce operators at the 911 depot.

[codename:v]

I think lawsuits and political exploitations would come in next after this news made headlines...
Oh well, my condolences go to the grieving family of this unfortunate woman...

[razgriz]

this is truly a sad world we live in, its not just this country which is supposed to be the most "civilized" of all first world nations but there are great injustices wherever you look, but obviously the ones that stand out the most are the ones that get all the press coverage. you really have to wonder if we as humanity can ever hope to ascend to a higher class of civilization when you consider things like this among other crap in the world thats no better than things that happened during medieval times.

[Ravager]

Wow...first time i've read such a news in America. That's real sick!

[BlackOpsElf]

This is just awful. No wonder people keep telling me there's a high demand for medical ethical specialists (I'm in grad school for Ethics).

At the same time, I feel there has to be more to this story than we are getting. I refuse to believe doctors would just stare at a woman if she was vomiting blood in front of them.

[wing zero alpha]

I will say that the officers that tried to haul her to the squad car before finding out she was dead need to be shot, and so to the tele-responce operators at the 911 depot.

Yeah, the fact they tried to arrest her got me more than the ignored phone calls, even if it was for a parole violation (which means criminal history).

At the same time, I feel there has to be more to this story than we are getting. I refuse to believe doctors would just stare at a woman if she was vomiting blood in front of them.

I was thinking that too, but then this is LA we're talking about, where the medicare is infamously horrible.

[xaeta]

as if the American Health Care couldn't be any more in the s**t hole...

I think that people are starting to just not care about one another, because all that they want to care about is themselves and only themselves.

the telephone operator should be put on trial and execution by firing squad.

[Ultimetemark4]

I have to agree with Fritz on this one: We don't know enough about what was happening here. Circumstances in a hospital can change everything when it comes to patient care.