Several employees at Kings County Hospital have been fired after a disturbing videotape surfaced showing a woman dying in a waiting room, while workers did nothing.
The New York Civil Liberties Union released the video, which was taken two weeks ago. It shows 49-year-old Esmin Green slumping out of her chair and going into convulsions as workers and fellow patients walk by her. She had been in the hospital’s psychiatric ward waiting area for more than 24 hours. She was later pronounced dead.
The NYCLU also says hospital workers fudged the time scale of the incident on Green’s medical records.
Now the group says the hospital, which is run by the city, will give patients in the waiting room a checkup every 15 minutes, and limit the number of patients to 25 at a time.
(Source: NY1)
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What was someone who *died* doing in a *psychiatric* waiting ward???
She was wrongly diagnosed having a psychiatric disorder while in fact she had a neurologic (or, more likely, a systemic) disorder causing functional symptoms (such as confusion, hysteria, etc).
Such symptoms should always be investigated thoroughly before declaring that it is a psychiatric disorder and not something more critical.
A grave error was probably made her by the triage nurse, who should have noticed this.