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Dec 16, 2008, 09:01 PM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 5,518
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Originally Posted by sunrise
There was that story from New York, I think, about the mentally ill woman who went to an emergency room for help, and was ignored. She eventually died in the ER waiting room after 12 hours or something and she still hadn't been seen. The whole thing was captured on video camera. That story made an impression on me.
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She didn't start out mentally ill - just VERY upset. She had been supporting her children back in Jamaica and became distraught after losing her job and home here. It's a shame her children had to eventually watch that video of their mother struggling all alone on the floor. 
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/hospital.woman.death/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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