Dash-cam video: Woman lay in Florida hospital parking lot 18 minutes, later died

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30. based on earlier reports of this case...

...the woman who died had a substantial history of disruptive behavior at that hospital.

At most hospitals, staff are trained to treat all patients as legitimate medical cases, regardless of the patient's track record. They want to avoid a "crying wolf" situation where someone known to have shown up with non-threatening conditions (or even non-existent conditions, deliberately faked or not) is ignored when they arrive with a very real problem. I get the sense this is a lesson the staff at this hospital never learned - the woman in this case had been problematic, and so when she had a very real medical emergency, she wasn't taken seriously. They are clearly at fault here.

I'm actually less inclined to hold the police officer at fault in this particular case. He's not a medical professional. People at the hospital probably told him she was malingering or whatever, and he took their word for it - after all, he's not a medical professional, but they are. He presumably didn't realize how incompetent they were.