Mr. P
06-13-2007, 10:43 AM
Several folks need some punishment for this! Starting in the ER!
LOS ANGELES -- A woman who lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a troubled Los Angeles inner-city hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to send her to another facility, it was reported Tuesday.
Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died of a perforated bowel on May 9 at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. Her death was ruled accidental by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Relatives said she was bleeding from the mouth and writhing in pain for 45 minutes. Experts have said Rodriguez could have survived had she been treated early enough. The head of the county's Department of Health Services, which oversees the facility, has called her death "inexcusable."
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/13492712/detail.html
LOS ANGELES -- A woman who lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a troubled Los Angeles inner-city hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to send her to another facility, it was reported Tuesday.
Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died of a perforated bowel on May 9 at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. Her death was ruled accidental by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Relatives said she was bleeding from the mouth and writhing in pain for 45 minutes. Experts have said Rodriguez could have survived had she been treated early enough. The head of the county's Department of Health Services, which oversees the facility, has called her death "inexcusable."
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/13492712/detail.html