In Canada with its North Korean-style healthcare system, it would be ruled EXCELLENT SERVICE… with an “unfortunate outcome” based on… lack of taxpayer funding… under the Harper Conservative regime… despite their campaign promise of a “wait times guarantee”… vote liberal… watch the CBC special on “The Passionate Eye”…. universal social program… funding… wealthy aren’t paying their share… Halliburton.
(Hat tip to Sheila Wray Gregoire)
Death of Heart Attack Victim Who Waited for Hours in Illinois Hospital Waiting Room Ruled Homicide
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — A coroner’s jury has declared the death of a heart attack victim who spent almost two hours in a hospital waiting room to be a homicide.
Beatrice Vance, 49, died of a heart attack, but the jury at a coroner’s inquest ruled Thursday that her death also was “a result of gross deviations from the standard of care that a reasonable person would have exercised in this situation.”
A spokeswoman for Vista Medical Center in Waukegan, where Vance died July 29, declined to comment on the ruling.
Vance had waited almost two hours for a doctor to see her after complaining of classic heart attack symptoms — nausea, shortness of breath and chest pains, Deputy Coroner Robert Barrett testified.
She was seen by a triage nurse about 15 minutes after she arrived, and the nurse classified her condition as “semi-emergent,” Barrett said. He said Vance’s daughter twice asked nurses after that when her mother would see a doctor.
When her name was finally called, a nurse found Vance slumped unconscious in a waiting room chair without a pulse. Barrett said. She was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
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