Jacko Kills Elderly Woman
That new tort reform bill won't go into effect soon enough.
Now, there are two issues here.
The first issue is that this woman was in her mid-seventies. When a seventy-four year old woman has a heart attack, more often than not she's not going to live through it. This lawsuit is about as ludicrous as the British performing autopsies on ninety-five year old pensioners whose deaths were unintended by a physician. I could be wrong about her situation (my grandmother's seventy, and aside from the development of diabetes in the past few years, she may as well be in her fifties), but my guess is that having been moved from one hospital room to another did not cause enough trauma to Mrs. Ruiz to result in her death.
The other issue is, of course, Michael Jackson. He went to the emergency room and was admitted to the hospital for the flu? Nonsense. Absolute nonsense. And his entourage caused enough disruption that an elderly woman who'd had a heart attack had to be moved? Is it just me, or is that about the most asinine thing you've ever heard?
The family of a woman who died after being moved out of a trauma room to accommodate Michael Jackson say they will sue the hospital and the pop star.
Manuela Gomez Ruiz, 74, was moved out of the room at the California hospital after Mr Jackson arrived suffering from "flu-like symptoms".
Mrs Ruiz, who was being treated for a massive heart attack, died later that day, the family told ABC News.
The hospital said it was confident of the level of care it gave patients.
The Marian Medical Centre in Santa Maria expressed its deepest sympathy to Mrs Ruiz's family, adding that patient privacy laws prevented it from commenting on individual patients' care, the news channel reported.
A spokesman for Mr Jackson said the pop star sent his condolences to the family, but added that it was "outrageous" that Mr Jackson's name should be involved, as the situation was beyond his authority and control.
Now, there are two issues here.
The first issue is that this woman was in her mid-seventies. When a seventy-four year old woman has a heart attack, more often than not she's not going to live through it. This lawsuit is about as ludicrous as the British performing autopsies on ninety-five year old pensioners whose deaths were unintended by a physician. I could be wrong about her situation (my grandmother's seventy, and aside from the development of diabetes in the past few years, she may as well be in her fifties), but my guess is that having been moved from one hospital room to another did not cause enough trauma to Mrs. Ruiz to result in her death.
The other issue is, of course, Michael Jackson. He went to the emergency room and was admitted to the hospital for the flu? Nonsense. Absolute nonsense. And his entourage caused enough disruption that an elderly woman who'd had a heart attack had to be moved? Is it just me, or is that about the most asinine thing you've ever heard?
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