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In reply to the discussion: Dash-cam video: Woman lay in Florida hospital parking lot 18 minutes, later died [View all]dixiegrrrrl
(60,164 posts)The doors to the actual ER are locked.
There is a window next to the doors where the patient has to come and give info. and insurance, but then has to go on the other side of
a wall next to the window to wait, and no staff can see them.The waiting room is like a recessed area.
When Mr. Dixie had a collapsed lung, and could not breathe, they were willing to leave him, sitting and hunched over and gasping for air, even after I had given the clerk all his insurance info.
He was at high risk of the other lung collapsing.
It was not until I I told them he was having a heart attack that anyone came out to let him into the ER proper.
That hospital is the only game in town for 100 miles.
Any time we go there I take names and wave my camera around.