ER wait kills man

[DrLeftover]

January 25, 2014
He walked into Saint Barnabas Hospital asking to be treated for a rash — but more than eight hours later, Jon Verrier was found dead in his chair in the crowded ER waiting room, hospital officials concede.

The 30-year-old amateur artist may have been dead for hours, according to a mortified employee who was there in the Bronx emergency room Monday morning when the corpse was ­finally discovered.

“He was found stiff, blue and cold,” the employee said, speaking to ABC News on condition of anonymity. “He died because [there’s] not enough staff to take care of the number of patients we see each day. We need more staff at Saint Barnabas.”

Officials at the 461-bed facility said Verrier checked into the ER at 10 p.m. Sunday and was found dead at 6:40 the next morning.

http://nypost.com/2014/01/25/man-found-dead-after-waiting-8-hours-in-er/

 

[Nebulous]

Sickening, but sounds accurate for an american hospital.

 

[DrLeftover]

And, from all accounts, the new Health Care payment system is making it even worse as medical staffs are cut and more people use the Emergency Room for primary care.

 

[Jazzy]

Upon his arrival, he was registered, triaged and told to wait to see a doctor, said Saint Barnabas spokesman Steve Clark, adding that Verrier was told to wait inside the ER itself but for some reason returned to the waiting room and took a seat.

Between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., his name was called “two or three times” and he did not answer, Clark said.

This is unfortunate but if he had stayed within the ER itself as he was told to do, he would have been seen and treated.

 

[DrLeftover]

But nobody noticed the 'dead guy' for how long?

 

[Jazzy]

But nobody noticed the 'dead guy' for how long?

Surveillance video from elsewhere in the hospital recorded Verrier alive and “moving” at 3:45 a.m., Clark said.
“Then after 6, when security did another pass, he was dead,” the hospital spokesman said.

According to this, the answer is a little over 2 hours.