Mark_Ockerbloom's Blog

MARK ,and they call this place a Hospital ?????? every employee who saw this poor lady lying on the floor should be charged with neglecting thier duty, that lady should never of been left alone to die on a hospital ? floor...the hospital should be sued by the family, and the hospital closed up !!

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I just can't bring myself to be so judgmental.

Maybe - given the fact that this is the psychiatric ward - people laying on the floor for an hour isn't exactly uncommon.

I'd like to hear from some of the hospital workers BEFORE I "tear them a new one."

This is another reason to sue the hospitals and don't believe a word they say. Seriously, why are we protecting these people by instituting lawsuit limitations? We have to send a message, don't just fire these people, try them for negligent manslaughter.

I live in Massachusetts, and we are forced to buy health insurance, you bet your buttocks that the second that any nurse messes up, I will get my legal revenge.

No mercy, no hostages, no remorse, give them the same respect that they showed this woman.

Hey Dave long time no see.... You are right about the fact it is not uncommon to see someone lying on the floor. The thing though is the camera saw her falling out of her chair and thrashing around. To me that spells seizure. The least someone could have done was to go and shake her or take her pulse, or kick her.

Fenwayday, TECHNICALLY they did take her pulse! When she was dying on the floor, papers show that she was talking, sitting and have a blood pressure of 70/100 and was able to communicate with the nurses.

HAHAHAHAHA, never believe anything on paper, look with your eyes! Don't just fire these people, have them incarcerated. I am pretty sure their new lover/cell mate will help them understand about caring for someone and while they scream, the guards will show them the same anamosity they did to this woman.

Next time anyone reading this goes into a hospital, show NO RESPECT. Don't care how long they have spent in school or how hard they "work", make a stink, argue, and demand LOUDLY the service you need.

The old addage of "squeeky wheel gets the grease" holds true. Get yours while you can, you might end up like this poor woman.

I'll say it one more time...Kings County Hospital is where you go when you are very very mentally ill. It handles all five boroughs of NYC and then some. Everything from drug overdoses to suicide. If you think the cream of the crop hospitals are under staff, well it's nothing compared to this place. People sit in there waiting room and lobby just to sleep it off sometimes. I said above it takes a very special person to work there. Maybe they need to shut the doors because they just can't handle it. Then where Kings County Hospital once stood would be people lying on the floor. Sometimes dying and people stepping over them. You want to see a mini version of this, go to Boston Medical Emergency room.

This is not just terribly sad it is an injustice and is the worst form of neglect! Why is is that our mentally ill people are so often abused and neglected?! I would like to see all involved FIRED! I believe there should be higher standards for those seeking employment in these places. One would think at the very least they should have to check on somone who fell out of their chair! Oh I don't know.... a person on the floor policy oops she slumped out of her chair go check on them not allow them to writhe on the floor dying don't check on that one..... whats the matter her health insurance tell them no coverage? sad, sick injustice! All involved should be fired and never allowed to work in any form of health care again! sorry If I have to have a liscence to cut someones hair. People should have to have liscences to be gaurds or staffers in a mental hospital! There obviously needs to be some form of standards here. maybe post a list stating it is acceptable for a patient to sleep in a chair. It is not acceptable to have one writhing on the floor for over an hour and then falsley say she was in the bathroom when in fact she was dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark I think this is sick. The way that security guard watch that woman lay there on the floor and did nothing. How would he like it if that was done to him. and The medical staff that did nothing they should be more than fired they should be charged with criminal neglent charges should be filed with the DA office. It makes you wonder Mark is this the first this has happen. What really gets me Mark is I don't care if if is a mental hospital or mental ward no one deserve to be treated like that and hospitals in this country need to add new safe guards and proceedures to prevent this from ever taking place again. Mark I know ther are heath care workers out there who throw ther hands up when they see things like that take place it has to stop becaue in the course of our live we have to go to a hospital whether its for ouselves or a love one and we must demand better care and the hospitals need to better train people instead of just putting them in a uniform it should not take a person to lose there life for this to happen. And Secuity guards should be better trained and be made to have some kind of medical training until back up comes and take over. And sueing the hosptial is not going to bring that women back the problem is still there and no amount of money can replace a life but new safeguards in our hospitals can