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...SEPTEMBER 10, Patricia Jones, 63, of Washington D.C. complained to her children of chest pains and shortness of breath. One of her daughters brought her to D.C. General Emergency Room, where she was asked to sit in the waiting area. Three hours later, she collapsed in front of the receptionist's desk with a blood clot in her lung, less than 50 feet from advanced resuscitation equipment. After 30 minutes of intensive treatment, physicians declared her dead...
...some, the case of Patricia Jones is a textbook study of medical malpractice. After all, how could any competent physician or nurse allow a woman with the symptoms of a life-threatening condition to wait for three hours? Lawyers across the city tripped over one another to file suit against the hospital. The news media converged on D.C. General, demanding answers...
...case isn't as simple as it seems. What killed Patricia Jones was more than an error in medical judgement; it was a system of care that forced her into an overburdened and underfunded emergency room, stocked with inadequate supplies and staffed by professionals pushed to the limit hour after hour, day after day. Patricia Jones was killed by her lack of access to private health care--the health care that most Harvard students take for granted...
...worked the day shift in the Emergency Care Center at D.C. General. I assisted the medical staff during trauma emergencies, wheeled patients to x-rays and stocked supplies in the walk-in clinic. After two months in the emergency room, what surprises me most about the case of Patricia Jones is that it doesn't happen more often...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Eric A. Berk (Manager); Genevieve Christy, Peter Mitchel (Deputies); Patricia Hermes, Camille Sanabria, Linda D. Vartoogian; Esther Cedeno, Wayne Chun, Sheila Greene, Carl Harmon, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu, Aston Wright, Katherine Young...