http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/waiting.room.death/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

 
updated 5:16 p.m. EDT, Tue July 1, 2008

Tape shows woman dying on waiting room floor

  * Story Highlights
  * Esmin Green was involuntarily admitted June 18 for “agitation and psychosis”
  * Kings County Hospital Center was target of lawsuit over conditions
  * Tape shows Green collapse, convulse and lay still; workers ignore her
  * Group says hospital staff falsified records to cover up incident

The story

A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.

Esmin Green was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as “agitation and psychosis.“

Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the civil liberties union, which was among the groups filing suit against the facility last year seeking improved conditions for patients.

I just can’t believe that while everyone watched, this woman fell out of her chair, then died and no one got up to even check on her, not even the security guard who did look in and then walked away.

That’s total BS and quite sad.
I really hate it when death results because of neglect.

Why do they call it an emergency room even…. They need to once again split up the priorities of staff at hospitals…
I know when I was in my car crash and had my diabetic seizure, I was waiting in th ER for hours…. granted I was not top priority, but still…. It is generally, first come first served policy.

The accepted method is triage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage Triage (pronounced /ˈtriːɑːʒ/) is a process of prioritizing patients based on the severity of their condition so as to treat as many as possible when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately. The term comes from the French verb trier, meaning to sort, sift or select. There are two types of triage: simple triage and advanced triage.

However, according to another article:  http://www.slate.com/id/2195851 outlines why waiting is so long: 

Waiting DoomHow hospitals are killing E.R. patients.
By Zachary F. Meisel and Jesse M. Pines
Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008, at 6:54 AM ET

....................A major cause for E.R. crowding is the hospital practice of boarding inpatients in emergency departments. This happens when patients who come to the E.R. need to be admitted overnight. If there are no inpatient beds in the hospital (or no extra inpatient nurses on duty that day) then the patient stays in the E.R. long past the completion of the initial emergency work. This is what happened to Green, and it has become widespread and common. The problem is that boarding shifts E.R. resources away from the new patients in the waiting room. While E.R. patients wait for inpatient beds, new patients wait longer to see a doctor. As more new patients come, the waits grow. And an E.R. filled with boarding patients and a full waiting room is an unhappy E.R.: The atmosphere is at once static and chaotic. If you or a loved one has waited for hours in an E.R., you know what we mean. The environment can be unsafe and even deadly. A recent study found that critically ill patients who board for more than six hours in the E.R. are 4 percent more likely to die….............

......So sad….
SOBs
What idiot some doctors are…...

This is old (3 weeks ago). I remember seeing it on the news

I can’t believe it wasn’t already posted somewhere

Yeah, saw it around the start of the month.. she was spotted by *two* security guards, both of whom did nothing (one of whom didn’t even bother to get out of his chair to look in on the room). Frankly I’m more upset at the fellow patients.. someone could have said ‘Hey, there’s a lady collapsed on the floor over here’...

A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital. We know noting of the state of mind of the other patients. Who’s to say they were competent enough to realize what was going on?

red_dragon_girl_69 - 26 July 2008 09:03 AM

A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital. We know noting of the state of mind of the other patients. Who’s to say they were competent enough to realize what was going on?

I suspect you are more right than you realize.  Having been in one of these hospitals many years ago I recall a patient falling from her bed as I passed by the room.  There was a ‘nurse’ just ahead and I ran to her to report that the patient had fallen.  The reply I got (the ‘nurse’ was crocheting), ‘Oh, she does that all the time.  She just wants attention and will get up when no one falls for the bait’.  I returned to the room to find the patient still on the floor, unconscious, and bleeding.  I returned again with that report and there FINALLY was action. 

MANY times, in State institutions, those in care of these patients are not much more than guards making minimum wage and just doing their 8-hour shifts.

I found something that alex showed months ago
A lot of experiments about it
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/unresponsive_bystanders/
am lot more experiments happened like the person who was hijacking a car,robbing a house,missing kid sitting on a bench
just hope im not necroposting