Man dies after waiting 22 hours at N.C. hospital

HOW can this happen? Prayers for Mr. Sabock and his family. :cry:

More at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26300822/

unfortunate that they choose to work in health care.

She fell off the chair and died and no one even went over to see what happened.

is when you're an EMBRYO. After that, you're on your own. Absolutely despicable.:mad:

... close the damn doors and don't admit any more patients.

You can't handle what you have as it is dammit.

but when every ER in town is full to the brim, they have to start taking everybody who walks through the door, no matter what.

ERs are the places people go if they have insurance and get the flu and are scared and hurting, even though the only cure for the flu is time; it's the family physician of last resort for people without insurance. Instead of dealing with what they were designed to--catastrophic, quick illness like heart attack and stroke plus fractures and trauma from gunshot and accident--they're dealing with what general practitioners would have seen had those general practitioners not been sitting behind a wall of HMO bureaucracy and rendered unaffordable.

If you want to see how broken our system is, go to an ER and people watch for a few hours.

It's no surprise that people fall through the cracks. The only surprise is that so few actually do.

Wisconsin were stocked and staffed for just that moment. I forget the correct term. They were not prepared for a disaster it was found out because it would cost to much. But the marble floors and beautiful private lunch rooms for the elite were built anyways. Those big pharma co. and those big insurance co. are making money hand over fist. Not the nurses though. When they asked for better wages from one of the largest growing hospital chains here-Aurora, the CEO told them to marry rich spouses. I jot down a few significant factors driving this crazy situation. I'm sure there are others.

That guy might of run up a huge bill on the taxpayer....