Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Time	Event
8:39a	Could health care get any better? Caught on tape: Hospital patient left to die. 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. Until the staffer's appearance, Green's collapse barely caused a ripple. Other patients waiting a few feet away didn't react. Security guards and a member of the hospital's staff appeared to notice her prone body at least three times, but made no visible attempt to see if she needed help. One guard didn't even leave his chair, rolling it around a corner to stare at the body, then rolling away a few moments later. Green's medical records raised the possibility that someone might have tried to cover up the circumstances of the death. One notation said that at 6 a.m., she was "awake, up and about" and had just used the restroom. Another said that at 6:20 a.m., she was sitting quietly in the waiting room, and had a normal blood pressure. During both of those times, Green was either in her death throes or already dead. Edit: Some psych patients wait days in ERs - A follow-up of sorts. (32 Comments | Comment on this)
12:06p	As See on TV: Tony Snow was a Saint and all Poor People are Shop-Lifting Meth Users Damn Portlanders is generally one big stinking pile of wank which is why I love it so, usually of the unfunny TL;DR kind. Since this is unfunnybusiness I've decided to inflict some of it upon you guys. Because I'm a sadist and your pain tastes like candy. nabeyaki_udon makes a post to Damportlanders, The Poor Have No Dignity. With a post title like that you KNOW there's got to be wank. ( And indeed, there was. ) I love my wanky, wanky city. (12 Comments | Comment on this)
12:33p	Black neighborhood was denied water service ...for 50 years. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Residents of a mostly black neighborhood in rural Ohio were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal jury that found local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination. Each of the 67 plaintiffs was awarded $15,000 to $300,000, depending on how long they had lived in the Coal Run neighborhood, about 5 miles east of Zanesville in Muskingum County in east-central Ohio. The money covers both monetary losses and the residents' pain and suffering between 1956, when water lines were first laid in the area, and 2003, when Coal Run got public water. Emphasis mine. ...WHAT THE SHIT. (16 Comments | Comment on this)

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