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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Revise of "the woman who died in the waiting room".

    I heard a definition once: It's health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. We all know that without health life is not life, that's why "Maslow" considerate it as one of the most needs. In the article "the woman who died in the waiting room" published in Newsweek, July 12, 2008, the author Jeneen Interlandi tells us a little story about a woman was ignored in the waiting room of a brooklyn hospital and died due to bloodclots in her legs. According to the article, the poor , the uninsured and the undocumented are the most part neglected from proper medical treatment. I stongly agree with the author's statement that the poor and the uninsured people who are suffering the most part with inproper medical treatment.
In the article, it mentiones that since the 1960's, the public hospitals  have issues with providing the best care for the uninsured, phychiatric patients and the poor individuales. We all know health system in the United States has many failures and is in decadence and after reading this article, I do not feel any surprise in front of this case, I am sure this is happening every day in public hospitals across the country. It's also stated in the article that the country offers 50.000 inpatient psychiatric beds for tens of millions of people. think that's unfair, the U.S  should review its strategie according the health field and should care more about people who are not asking much. They just need a secure society so they feel secured and there is someone thinks and cares about them. Many people don'y have financial aids to go see a doctoer when they have pain. In this case, who needs to think and offer help to this people. It's the government of course who has to do that.
Also, we need professional  and helpful medical stuff members in hospitals. This little story was an example of uncare and ignorance that poor, uninsured, and undocumented people are getting every day in public hospitals. The woman who died in the waiting room was sitting under the watchful eye of a security camera that couses this story to be known over the country and by many people. But we have to know that these things happen every second and many of us don't discovered.

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