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Video shows woman dying on NY hospital floor
Video from a surveillance camera at a Brooklyn, N.Y., 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 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.
The agency that runs the municipal hospital — the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp. — fired several staffers as a result.
— The Associated Press
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By Dragonslayer
July 1, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
After watching this video and with my experience with long waits in emergency rooms makes me realize what a uncaring society we live in and why I try NOT to have to go to the hospital for any reason, it appears they are there to kill you, one way or the other! If I want to fall out of a chair and die I’ll do it at home!