If you can afford the Mayo Clinic, that is. Otherwise your more likely to suffer the fate of this woman who died unattended and untreated in plain sight at a New York hospital emergency room:
City hospital officials said they were shocked by surveillance footage showing a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers failed to help for more than an hour.
Surveillance video shows a woman lying on the hospital floor for almost an hour before anyone helped her.Surveillance video shows a woman lying on the hospital floor for almost an hour before anyone helped her.
Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32 a.m. June 19, falling face-down on the floor.
She was dead by 6:35, when someone on the medical staff, flagged down by a person in the waiting room, finally approached, nudged Green with her foot and gently prodded her shoulder, as if to wake her. […]
Until the staffer’s appearance, Green’s collapse barely caused a ripple. Other patients waiting a few feet away didn’t react. 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 whether she needed help.
Words fail me.
