wtf, this is low

ACR4V3N · 07-02-2008, 11:48 AM

Six hospital employees disciplined in ER death - CNN.com

Six hospital employees disciplined in ER death - CNN.com Video
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you can see the people just looking at here and walking by

mr_pringles · 07-02-2008, 11:50 AM

probably thought she was a crackhead and didn't have insurance, sad though.

ACR4V3N · 07-02-2008, 11:51 AM

Yeah, but to leave her sitting there waiting for 24 hours is inhumane all way round.

Ben Bernake · 07-02-2008, 11:58 AM

Heard about this on the radio this morning, fucked up

theocean · 07-02-2008, 12:08 PM

I bet if she was an illegal mexican she would have gotten service...believe that

NHB7 · 07-02-2008, 12:09 PM

It is fucked up, but guess who left her sitting there? Every day normal people. Its easy to judge them, and in fact they may see this video and say, "What was I thinking." Nonetheless, this reality that we will ignore people when they are in trouble has been proven time and time again. The reason hero's make news is because heros are rare. It is referred to as the bystander effect.

An example was a woman named Kitty Genovese (so sometimes they even call it Genovese Syndrome). In 1974 this woman was stabbed by an unknown attacker on a street corner as she walked to her apartment. She screamed and the man left. People looked out their windows and she screamed to them, "Please help, I've been stabbed!" Instead of helping, they watched as the man came back and stabbed her several more times again and ran off again. Now she crawled to her apartment complex of the course of the next twenty minutes screaming for help. Buy this time almost all the lights on and dozens of people were watching from their windows. As she reached the front of her apartment the man came up and stabbed her to death. After her body was found, it turned out that not one person had even called the police, but that at least thirty had witnessed it.

So yeah, its fucked up. Its a fucked up part of human nature. And we can all think of ourselves as unique from it, but until we are in the situation, we don't really know.

When I was 19 I got into a fight in a park. During said fight, some guys started stabbing my friend. Now before that time I would have told you, "never leave a friend behind, you got to have your friends back." But now I can tell you what I did. I ran. And as I ran I heard him screaming, "Don't Leave! Don't Leave!" And in my head I thought "Don't leave!" But my feet kept running.

NHB7 · 07-02-2008, 12:13 PM

That being said...ER hospital employees? C'mon! Sheesh.

LOL, I just thought I'd use the opportunity to do my annual mayberry rant about the bystandar effect. But even I get annoyed when I read this crap.

I took my mom to the ER once when she was getting chemo therapy for her Cancer. They told us, "If she ever gets seriously dehydrated, take her in immediately!" Well she did and I took her immediately. Of course we sat out there for two hours with a bunch of people coughing and puking and looking like they were dying. Now I understand that there were probably people in greater need, but three times I went up to the receptionist and said, "Can we move my mom to a different area while we wait." but she refused to let us. It was as if she didn't realize that people on chemo therapy with cancer have extremely fragile immune systems and are very liable to get sick and even die. I was pissed.