Tuesday, July 01, 2008

My Way News - Video shows woman dying on Brooklyn hospital floor
AP reports: "City hospital officials agreed in court Tuesday to implement reforms at a psychiatric ward where surveillance footage showed a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers failed to help for more than an hour. [...] 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."

Comment: I use the tag "wickedness increases" for posts such as this, but to be scripturally accurate, it should be "because wickedness increases the love of most grows cold." The prophecy is about the lack of love, not so much the wickedness, which is merely the cause. Maybe I should have tagged these posts with "love grows cold" but then I felt I'd have to keep explaining what that meant. Anyway, to watch another human being suffer and die and not try to help, when one is presumably in a helping profession (as at a hospital), is probably one of the most wicked and unloving things I've come across recently.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is sick. There is no accountability. It seems as though society is moving towards a zero accountability for actions. Someone should be liable for this womens death and face the heat.

Portents said...

Thanks for your comment, I agree and hope there is some accountability there. The news report indicated that people did lose their jobs over this, but the wider issue is the mistreatment of the poor, who can't afford to go anywhere else but to a hospital with a reputation for terrible care.