More from the case at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital last month:
In the 40 minutes before a woman’s death last month at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, two separate callers pleaded with 911 dispatchers to send help because the hospital staff was ignoring her as she writhed on the floor, according to audio recordings of the calls.“My wife is dying and the nurses don’t want to help her out,” Jose Prado, the woman’s boyfriend, told the 911 dispatcher through an interpreter.
He was calling from a pay phone outside the hospital, his tone increasingly desperate as he described how his 43-year-old girlfriend was spitting up blood.
(via symtym)
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Adding to the list of unbelievable, amazing stupidity by the trigae nurse, the callous treatment of the 911 operator – this example of incredible ignorance from those with a responsibility to provide this woman help –
[Prado] knocked on the door of the county office of public safety, which provides security at the hospital. Prado said he told the officers that Rodriguez was bleeding from her mouth. A sergeant responded in Spanish, “That’s not blood. That’s chocolate. (emphasis mine)
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