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Woman Dies in Psych Ward. Staff Stands Around and Does Nothing.

From USA Today.  "NEW YORK (AP) — City hospital officials agreed in court
Tuesday to implement reforms at a psychiatric ward where surveillance footage
showed a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as
workers failed to help for more than an hour.  Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting
in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32
a.m. on June 19, falling face down on the floor.
She was dead by 6:35, when someone on the medical staff, flagged down by a
person in the waiting room, finally approached, nudged Green with her foot, and
gently prodded her shoulder, as if to wake her. The staffer then left and
returned with someone wearing a white lab coat who examined her and summoned
help.
Green, who had been involuntarily committed the previous morning, and had waited
overnight for a bed, stopped moving about half an hour after she collapsed.
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the hospital,
said six people have been fired as a result, including security personnel and
members of the medical staff."
Fired, my foot!  They should be up on charges of criminally negligent homicide.

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