Comments on: Hospital Staff Dance and Play Cards as Patient Dies After Being Abandoned in Chair for 22 Hours http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alan B http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/#comment-21387 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:09:33 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3424#comment-21387 It’s simple, what’s the value of a mentally ill
person in our society? The Nazis were aware of their
value in 1935. Sick but true.

]]> By: rafflaw http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/#comment-21374 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:19:43 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3424#comment-21374 Jill,
The majority of the conservatives who are not in the upper 1% of the income brackets, have been voting against their economic best interests for 7 1/2 years now. They won’t change now because Fox News is still telling them that universal health is bad.

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/#comment-21369 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:13:19 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3424#comment-21369 rafflaw,

Have you ever wondered why conservatives are O.K. with 2000 private companies telling them which doctor they may see and which proceedures they are allowed to have? I have never understood this. Other countries have national health care for all with doctor choice. Their doctor does not have to fight for a proceedure to be authorized and the patient does not have to have fund raisers to cover their treatment. ARRGGGG!!!

Best,

Jill

]]> By: rafflaw http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/#comment-21360 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:16:17 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3424#comment-21360 The facts are very clear (for those who live in reality) that the Medicare system is much more efficient than the profit based insurance company system that some people think is the best that we can do. I agree with Susan and Jill that the family needs to use the legal system to show this hospital the errors in their ways. I was amazed that the Feds are only “considering” the withdrawal of Federal funds for this hospital.

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/#comment-21351 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:11:15 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3424#comment-21351 I guess that bribe from the funeral parlor worked this time.

Seriously, Susan, I completely agree!

]]> By: dundar http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/#comment-21333 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:27:40 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3424#comment-21333 Yup, and liberals want the US Government to run our health care…

]]> By: B.L. Zbubb http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/#comment-21328 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:49:54 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3424#comment-21328 Ahh, the new American people.

You’re coming along so nicely.

]]> By: Susan http://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/19/hospital-staff-dance-and-play-cards-as-patient-dies-after-being-abandoned-in-chair-for-22-hours/#comment-21321 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:46:17 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3424#comment-21321 Good GRIEF! This is the kind of substandard “medical treatment” given to inmates at a jail or prison, and that is just as inexcusable. The fact that this callous disregard for a person’s life was caused by medical staff at a HOSPITAL makes this patient’s needless death far worse. I hope the family of this patient will not only file a large wrongful death lawsuit, but pressure the local prosecutor to bring charges against them for criminal negligence.

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