I was just reading the story of Edith Isabel Rodrguez, 43, who died of a perforated bowel on May 9th at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital due to intentional neglect by the hospital staff in the emergency room.
It says that as she lay bleeding to death, dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to take her to another hospital, even as her boyfriend and others made repeated calls to 911 dispatchers who not only did not help, but argued with the callers.
Experts say that she would have lived if she had been treated promptly, instead of being left to lay on the cart for 45 minutes in what her relatives describe as excruciating pain. When police finally did arrive to transport her to another facility, they arrested her for a parole violation, instead of getting her help. She died as they were wheeling her out of the hospital under arrest.
My God can you believe the callous disregard for this poor woman's life. How can trained professionals who are supposed to be about caring for life, be so evil to another human being. Each and everyone of the people involved should be charged with manslaughter and face real time jail.
It sounds like this hospital has had problems for a long time, but my God, the simplest bit of attention to this woman and her family could have saved her life.
At the very least these dispatchers, emergency room staff, etc., should be fired and not be allowed to provide their shoddy treatment on anyone else.
There is a video of this story as well which can be viewed at the site of the story.
May this woman who died in such a painful and cruel way, Rest In Peace!
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