An official document filed by the Los Angeles County while assessing the death of Edith Rodriguez in the waiting room of Martin Luther King Jr.- Harbor Medical Center on May 9, 2007, has declared that her life could have been saved if only she had been properly treated.
Rodriguez's last moments of agony were captured on security videotape as she waited for over 45 minutes for someone to listen to her. The video shows how a triage nurse dismissed her complaints and how a janitor mopped the floor around her. This evidence of the indifference shown to Rodriguez made national news and angered county supervisors and national health authorities as well as residents of the county.
Rodriguez's boyfriend who accompanied her to the hospital and called 911 from a nearby pay phone after no one would help her, received $250,000 as a settlement from county supervisors. Her children are filing a separate lawsuit which could prove to be costlier for the hospital.
Shortly after she was arrested on an outstanding warrant - instead of being treated- Rodriguez died from a perforated bowel.
This payout would be the latest in a long history of settlements that the hospital has had to make in the past for poor patient care. The hospital has been closed for a while now.
The internal county assessment was not meant for public circulation but was made public when lawyers working for the county mistakenly included it in a recent court filing.
Rodriguez's children have asked for $1 million for every minute that she was denied treatment, totalling $45 million.
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Rodriguez's last moments of agony were captured on security videotape as she waited for over 45 minutes for someone to listen to her. The video shows how a triage nurse dismissed her complaints and how a janitor mopped the floor around her. This evidence of the indifference shown to Rodriguez made national news and angered county supervisors and national health authorities as well as residents of the county.
Rodriguez's boyfriend who accompanied her to the hospital and called 911 from a nearby pay phone after no one would help her, received $250,000 as a settlement from county supervisors. Her children are filing a separate lawsuit which could prove to be costlier for the hospital.
Shortly after she was arrested on an outstanding warrant - instead of being treated- Rodriguez died from a perforated bowel.
This payout would be the latest in a long history of settlements that the hospital has had to make in the past for poor patient care. The hospital has been closed for a while now.
The internal county assessment was not meant for public circulation but was made public when lawyers working for the county mistakenly included it in a recent court filing.
Rodriguez's children have asked for $1 million for every minute that she was denied treatment, totalling $45 million.
To read the whole article click here.
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