What the CRAP is that about..staff denies her treatment, bystanders call 911 and are told by dispatcher over the phone that it's not an emergency..they run to police/security station at hospital and they run her name and ID and arrest her on outstanding warrant..haul her to unit in wheelchair and scream at her to get into the car while she's unconcious and then she DIES?????
What the $%#%$@%$#*^&(*^)(^&_&()&(*(^&%^$%$#%^&%*&(^(&^*(&+)*()_*()^$%&^$%$&^$%$%$@#$!@#$@#$@#$%&%^^&$#$@#$@#$@#$@#$#!@#$@#@#$@$%
2007-06-15 16:57:03 · 12 answers · asked by ? 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Los Angeles County for you....what the crap!!!
2007-06-15 16:57:48 · update #1
Makes you question why we pay taxes don't it.
2007-06-15 20:24:21 · answer #1 · answered by tmilestc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Okay people.
When things sound really jacked up you should probably look into things a little bit instead of taking the first thing you find.
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_135204209.html
Here the news story clearly states that woman had been seen by hospital staff and released from the ER. In other words health care staff had cleared her to leave with her boyfriend. The police arrived on the scene and determined that she had a warrant. They took her into custody. Police are not doctors and are not trained to diagnose illnesses. All they were going on was that the woman had been seen already and she had been released.
They took her and unfortunately she died. The police had nothing to do with her death. The dispatcher was not there and has no control over hospital staff. If someone dropped the ball it may have been the ER Staff that gave her painkillers and then released her.
The matter is under investigation and hopefully cool heads will prevail.
2007-06-15 22:54:25 · answer #2 · answered by El Scott 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is an awkward case- as situations involving humans often are. It is easy to try to pin blame, but let's be fair.
911 dispatch- would you really expect them to send an ambulance to a hospital? Ambulances cannot provide the kind of care a hospital can, and they take people to the nearest practical place- in this case, the same hospital. There are practical and budgetary realities- you do not use ambulances to settle what surely sounded like a 'I'm unhappy with these guys' call.
Police- WHY were the police called? They don't transfer victims to other hospitals. If there is a legal issue in the victim's past, they are REQUIRED to deal with it. Why would a cop assume that the victim was going to die if they were already at a hospital and discharged?
It sounds like the victim's family is part of the issue- families going to the press to make accusations is popular- and massively unfair to due process.
2007-06-17 16:02:33 · answer #3 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
looks like a breakdown in the medical care at that hospital. Probably a pretty crappy hospital by the way the article describes it. Probably made even more crappy and overburdened by the huge amount of non-taxpaying illegals who use that hospital. You wonder if there even was a doctor available to look at her or if one doctor on staff was already in another 'emergency'
I'm not saying that it's right what happened, but I don't think the blame lies in any one area, not the cops alone, not the hospital alone. I believe it's only going to get worse in California first and then the rest of the nation...especially when the #$% repubicans grant amnesty and free healthcare to millions of illegals.
2007-06-15 20:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by VodkaTonic 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yea, that's the state of health care when you're uninsured in America. The treatment that people receive at some of these hospitals is absolutely frightening. It's too bad that a woman had to die for people to see the horror that happens every day at some of these emergency rooms.
2016-05-17 05:15:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Re the 911 calls- what do you expect the operators to do? patient is already at a hospital. it's no longer a police emergency, but a medical one. you hope that the medical review board can make some changes.
2007-06-17 06:12:57 · answer #6 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok you guys are wither complete idiots or only skim things that dont have lots of pictures....the police were asked to remove her...IT WAS THE HOSPITALS REFUSAL TO HELP THE WOMAN THAT KILLED HER...... so you can blame the police all you want but what it boils down to is the decline in patient care as stated in the article.....please...if your going to sit here an judge and try to play these games..make sure you can comprehend what you are ranting about........
2007-06-15 19:19:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Quit yer whining. Everybody knows that the Police are above the law and can get away with anything they want. Just ask Rodney King.
2007-06-15 18:07:39 · answer #8 · answered by Red Eric 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Ive lived in Los Angeles my entire 48 years on this earth and although we have large amount of chicken chit cops, I doubt theres a hospital here that would let that happen.......
2007-06-15 17:16:24 · answer #9 · answered by sheliteful 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yeah, how disgusting--they actually put her in a squad car. Sick, heartless. jerks. These are the kinds of scum who are having their fun in places like Abu Ghraib right now.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/13/hospitaldeath.probe.ap/index.html
2007-06-15 17:06:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I suppose the police watched her die as they laughed manically... and then Elvis came.
The link clearly shows that the POLICE brought her to the hospital, and the ER staff didn't help her.
Don't blame the cops for not being doctors. Blame the hospital.
2007-06-15 17:01:48 · answer #11 · answered by futurefbiguy 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋