Re: woman dies in ER waiting room (article) Originally Posted by Myxel67 
Just go to the ER thread and read it. I can't believe you haven't seen some of this yourselves. Just because someone is a nurse, they are not automatically nominated for sainthood. There is no excuse for this kind of treatment. It's illegal. I don't care if the patient was stinking drunk (there was no indication that she was--just an example), she deserved to be triaged.
There are NO extenuating circumstances that can excuse how this woman was treated. Judgmental--Me? You bet, if it means holding hospital employees accountable.
I do not believe it had anything to do with being hispanic because the same thing happened to my cousin and she was white.
Morbidly obese, went to the ER several times over two weeks with abdominal pain and was shown to be getting weaker and weaker with each visit, but other than prescribing and antibiotic and sending her on her way they did nothing. She went to the ER one night, got sent home, my aunt found her dead when she went in to check on her at 3AM.
I do fully believe, however, the way she was treated had to do with being indigent.
I have been sent away from a hospital as soon as they found out I had no insurance, the doctor wouldn't even come in to look at me and told the nurse over the hospital phone it didn't sound like an emergency and to send me home. I mean, he didn't even try to be subtle about it, but I was 22 at the time, didn't realize I could have caused a rukus.
It's not fair, but then, that hasn't stopped the system from business as usual. There's nothing new under the sun.
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