woman left to die on hosptial floor

[kane9321]

NEW YORK - Video from a surveillance camera at a Brooklyn hospital shows a woman dying on the floor of a psychiatric emergency room while people nearby ignore her.

The video was released Monday by lawyers suing Kings County Hospital alleging neglect and abuse of mental health patients at the facility.

The video shows the 49-year-old woman keeling over and falling out of her chair on June 19 and lying facedown on the floor, then thrashing before going still. About an hour passed before someone realized what was happening and tried to help.

"It's an emergency room, it's not a bus terminal," said Attorney Robert Cohen, of Kirkland & Ellis. "People who are in desperate need of services, care and attention come here to be treated and to get better. They don't come here to die alone."

While the videotape showed that she was on the floor at 6 a.m., the New York Civil Liberties Union said hospital records were filed stating that she was "awake up and alert” at that very time.

"We were absolutely appalled to get medical documentation kept in accordance with New York state law which was completely contradicted by video surveillance feeds," said Beth Haroules, staff counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Last year advocates sued KCH, calling its psychiatric ward a “chamber of filth, decay, indifference and danger.”

Damn NY

 

[jaguarr]

I bet she didn't have insurance. This is atrocious. People will swing for this one, and rightfully so.

jag

 

[Alex The Great]

oh my god....

that is just....ugh.....can that Particle machine thingy turn on and destroy us all soon?

 

[StrainedEyes]

The people sitting down in the same room, facing her, who did nothing, are *******s. Had that security guard not come wandering in, who knows how long she would have been there.

Ridiculous, just like that video of the Hit and Run where everyone ignored the guy.

 

[Superman4ever]

I can definitely see this happening in many hospitals. Mental health patients, especially the "frequent fliers" are usually brushed aside.

They also falsified their records.

 

[JP]

I donno what "Damn NY" is supposed to mean.


Anyway, this is truly horrible, and yet not so surprising. I mean it's an Emergency room. The place were half dead people go to sit and wait for hours and hours and hours.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The people sitting down in the same room, facing her, who did nothing, are *******s. Had that security guard not come wandering in, who knows how long she would have been there.

Ridiculous, just like that video of the Hit and Run where everyone ignored the guy.

It's not as bad as the hit and run guy, cops were there within a minute and it looked like some people were going over or calling 911. This was complete and total indifference for 45 minutes. Look at the woman in beige, she's there the entire time and does absolutely nothing.

 

[The Battousai]

It's not as bad as the hit and run guy, cops were there within a minute and it looked like some people were going over or calling 911. This was complete and total indifference for 45 minutes. Look at the woman in beige, she's there the entire time and does absolutely nothing.

I think you have your wording backwards

 

[Schlosser85]

The ***** in beige needs to not only get her ass kicked out of there, but face charges for criminal neglect.

 

[The Chairman]

Horrible, horrible story. I hope they get their asses sued for all they're worth.

 

[Darthphere]

Not the first time and it won't be the last. Wasn't there an eerily similar story a few months ago that involved a lady actually bleeding all over the floor.

 

[The Chairman]

Not the first time and it won't be the last. Wasn't there an eerily similar story a few months ago that involved a lady actually bleeding all over the floor.

Yes, I wholly remember that incident.

 

[rizzo51]

not to mention the hospitals that dump weary, disoriented patients that can't pay their bill off in front of free clinics. Theres a nice shnippet of that in that movie 'Sicko'. the health care system in the states does some really dispicable things.

 

[StrainedEyes]

It's not as bad as the hit and run guy, cops were there within a minute and it looked like some people were going over or calling 911. This was complete and total indifference for 45 minutes. Look at the woman in beige, she's there the entire time and does absolutely nothing.

No, according to reports, No one called 911 for the hit and run guy, the cop that arrived came to the area on another call and saw the commotion. No one did anything for the hit and run guy, people looked at him, cars slowed down, but no one did anything. Exactly like this.

 

[Starbird]

Wow...

 

[kainedamo]

I don't think that kind of indifference would happen here...
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[spideyboy_1111]

this just happened in cali about a year ago.... oddly enough the hospital had the word "king" in it too....

 

[Manic]

I saw this on the news. They actually played the video of the woman falling on the floor and twitching around for a while. There was no one sitting near her, but there were definitely other people in the room who walked right by. She was face-down on the floor. What's wrong with people?

 

[StrainedEyes]

I saw this on the news. They actually played the video of the woman falling on the floor and twitching around for a while. There was no one sitting near her, but there were definitely other people in the room who walked right by. She was face-down on the floor. What's wrong with people?

In the full video there are people sitting right across the room, facing her when she falls.

 

[vindrow]

These type of things don't surprise me anymore...we, as a society have gotten to a point where we won't help people either because we are afraid of being sued, or that we just don't want to get involved with what is going on, but damned if we won't stand around and watch another human being suffer.