http://news.opb.org/article/63042-hospital-sent-emt-assist-victim-parking-garage/
Synopsis:
Dude has chest pains and drives himself to the ER at a local hospital to get it looked at. Has a major heart attack as he's pulling into the parking lot, crashes into a light pole.
Twenty minutes later, someone notices and calls police, who were nearby dealing with another accident (pretty common near there thanks to the mall, lightrail and generally poor and confused drivers in the area of the hospital)
One of the officers pull the guy out of the car, he's without pulse and is not breathing, so one officer begins CPR while the partner runs into the ER to get help.
Someone in the ER tells the officer to call an ambulance. The officer believes that no one is coming to help. In fact, someone in the ER was tracking down an EMT that was on scene and sending them out to assist the patient and get them into the ER, while the officer was calling for an ambulance.
EMT heads out to the patient, takes over for the Officers and brings the patient into the ER, where he's pronounced dead within 20-30 minutes.
The patient's family is not happy with this explanation and will be suing the hospital. I suspect there will be a quiet settlement coming from this.
What's interesting is that, no one has bothered (until this article) to focus on the fact that the poor bastard was sitting in his car for twenty minutes before anyone arrived to help. He was probably dead when he hit the damned pole. Autopsy results might be interesting to see as to when the patient might have died or how bad the heart attack was.
Bottom line, don't drive yourself to the hospital if you're having chest pains.
The fact that the wife said that she should have driven him to the hospital on camera will hurt her case quiet a bit (that and being Hispanic and unable to speak English, unfortunately.)
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