WTF is wrong with California's healthcare???

[DennisAJC]

Imagine this happening to your wife, child or loved one?




Doctor watches woman died on ER floor after refusing to help her.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/13/hos....ap/index.html

[jmsspratlin]

He will def loose his license. As a doc/nurse/etc. you take a hypocratic oath. In that, you provide care regardless of monentary gain. What an A-hole!

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by jmsspratlin

He will def loose his license. As a doc/nurse/etc. you take a hypocratic oath. In that, you provide care regardless of monentary gain. What an A-hole!

I wonder how many hundreds of millions of dollars the family will sue for and win?

[jmsspratlin]

Originally Posted by DennisAJC

I wonder how many hundreds of millions of dollars the family will sue for and win?

I figure they could probably name their price at this point. Hell, the guy that lost his pants at the dry-cleaners is sueing for something like 52 mil I believe. Damn....what is society coming to?

Very sad.

[fourfourto]

I dont think it would happen where I live so why should it happen anywhere in US.


My idiot brother in law 23 years old acts like 12.
Got into a motorcycle crash with his buddy rear ending him,Both of them had no insurance(for bike and health).
They tried to pin his toe back on and stayed 3 days in hospital.
It didnt take so they removed his middle toe 2 weeks later knowing he didnt have insurance it was 2 more days in hospital.
A few weeks pass and he gets a bill for $40,000+

He has no job (Looser ) And isnt going to pay anytime soon.
I guess he will straighten out eventually and have to pay if he ever wants good credit and gets a life.

[bparker]

You guys need to wake up. Its not entirely the hospitals fault.

I am not going to wager in this case as I dont know but the ENTIRE health system in the USA is FAWKED UP.

There are tons of people that dont have health care and not to mention the MILLIONS of illegals in this country that run to the ER when they get a sniffle which clogs up the ER.

Since we have the law where they can not refuse help, illegals flock to the ER for the common cold.

ER people can only handle so much and if professionally and emotionally left to work in such an enviornment where dam near 90% are illegal and without health care and only have the flu they become insensitive to thier mission at hand.

I am not saying that its right - but at least have the common sense to see what it is and neither side is right - the system is fawked up by making ER people work endless hours on illegals while the real needy get left behind.

Originally Posted by jmsspratlin

I figure they could probably name their price at this point. Hell, the guy that lost his pants at the dry-cleaners is sueing for something like 52 mil I believe. Damn....what is society coming to?

[MarineHawk]

Originally Posted by bparker

You guys need to wake up. Its not entirely the hospitals fault.

I am not going to wager in this case as I dont know but the ENTIRE health system in the USA is FAWKED UP.

There are tons of people that dont have health care and not to mention the MILLIONS of illegals in this country that run to the ER when they get a sniffle which clogs up the ER.

Since we have the law where they can not refuse help, illegals flock to the ER for the common cold.

ER people can only handle so much and if professionally and emotionally left to work in such an enviornment where dam near 90% are illegal and without health care and only have the flu they become insensitive to thier mission at hand.

I am not saying that its right - but at least have the common sense to see what it is and neither side is right - the system is fawked up by making ER people work endless hours on illegals while the real needy get left behind.

She was vomiting blood. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/13/hos....ap/index.html

Probably ought to prioritize her care a little higher at that point.

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by bparker

You guys need to wake up. Its not entirely the hospitals fault.

I am not going to wager in this case as I dont know but the ENTIRE health system in the USA is FAWKED UP.

There are tons of people that dont have health care and not to mention the MILLIONS of illegals in this country that run to the ER when they get a sniffle which clogs up the ER.

Since we have the law where they can not refuse help, illegals flock to the ER for the common cold.

ER people can only handle so much and if professionally and emotionally left to work in such an enviornment where dam near 90% are illegal and without health care and only have the flu they become insensitive to thier mission at hand.

I am not saying that its right - but at least have the common sense to see what it is and neither side is right - the system is fawked up by making ER people work endless hours on illegals while the real needy get left behind.

I admit it's very easy for us to talk tough with our opinions and views, but bottom line is people are people no matter who they are.

I honestly think you wouldn't be able to look that dying woman in the eye and tell her that. It takes a certain psycho to do what that doctor did.

The video cameras tell a different story. An undercapacity ER with the doctor holding a cup of coffee leaning against the counter watching her die vomiting blood while the janitor calmly mops up the blood around her.

[bparker]

True Dennis its a terrible story. No doubt. But we are in a crisis in regards to health care.

If it were my mom/wife/relative and I was there I would NOT accept them not caring for her. And if my efforts had failed and my mom/wife/relative died as this woman did - there would be some serious docs needed from all parts of the world to put those people back together after ignoring a loved one like that.

I would have gladly gone to jail "disturbing the peace" in effort to get her some attention.

Its just sad but if you think about it they seriously needed to riot a bit and they would have had the attention they needed. Staying calm and quiet apparently didnt work - but isnt it sad that is what it takes to get someone to help you? Hence we need reform badly.

Originally Posted by DennisAJC

I admit it's very easy for us to talk tough with our opinions and views, but bottom line is people are people no matter who they are.

I honestly think you wouldn't be able to look that dying woman in the eye and tell her that. It takes a certain psycho to do what that doctor did.

The video cameras tell a different story. An undercapacity ER with the doctor holding a cup of coffee leaning against the counter watching her die vomiting blood while the janitor calmly mops up the blood around her.

[jmsspratlin]

Originally Posted by bparker

True Dennis its a terrible story. No doubt. But we are in a crisis in regards to health care.

If it were my mom/wife/relative and I was there I would NOT accept them not caring for her. And if my efforts had failed and my mom/wife/relative died as this woman did - there would be some serious docs needed from all parts of the world to put those people back together after ignoring a loved one like that.

I would have gladly gone to jail "disturbing the peace" in effort to get her some attention.

Its just sad but if you think about it they seriously needed to riot a bit and they would have had the attention they needed. Staying calm and quiet apparently didnt work - but isnt it sad that is what it takes to get someone to help you? Hence we need reform badly.

Originally Posted by DennisAJC

I admit it's very easy for us to talk tough with our opinions and views, but bottom line is people are people no matter who they are.

I honestly think you wouldn't be able to look that dying woman in the eye and tell her that. It takes a certain psycho to do what that doctor did.

The video cameras tell a different story. An undercapacity ER with the doctor holding a cup of coffee leaning against the counter watching her die vomiting blood while the janitor calmly mops up the blood around her.

I agree. Well put.

[h2co-pilot]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281775,00.html

Rodriguez 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.

From Fox News. CNN sux.

Apparently she had been in there 3 times for abdominal pain. If she had been sticking things in her butt she should have disclosed it!!!!!

But it still doesn't make it right.

There are too many things that make healthcare undesirable here, but I don't want to get worked up. Lawsuits being A #1.

[Dan Rather]

It wouldn't have anything to do with the entire health care system being overworked so badly by all of the illegal aliens that's it's teetering on the verge of collapse. On any given day in Southern California the ER's are jammed beyond capacity with illegals.

[Walter_Cronkite]

Don't forget the unemployed negros and dying homosexuals.

I long for the old days where everything was white and we were allowed to sodomize our livestock without batting an eye.

[Jim_Cantore]

And don't forget about all those damn Katrina "victims".

[DRTYFN]

Originally Posted by Jim_Cantore

And don't forget about all those damn Katrina "criminals & burdens on the welfare system".

F1x0r3d

[Agriv8r]

its easy to see both sides as long as your not on one of them...

[Ed Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Walter_Cronkite

I long for the old days where everything was white and we were allowed to sodomize our livestock without batting an eye.

Come visit me at the compound Walt. We've got plenty of exotic livestock and the hospitable people here won't bother you during any urgent moments of intimacy.

[jmsspratlin]

Originally Posted by Jim_Cantore

And don't forget about all those damn Katrina "victims".

I agree!