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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:52 AM Nov 2017

WWII veteran calls for help and dies as nurses laugh, video shows

Is this how we're all going to die in America? calling for help and others laugh.



The family of James Dempsey, 89, of Woodstock, Ga., hid a camera in the late veteran’s room in the Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation Center which captured the night he died.

The video showed the decorated WWII veteran repeatedly calling for help, saying he could not breathe. It also showed the nurses failing to take life-saving measures and laughing as they tried to start an oxygen machine.
from http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/18/wwii-veteran-calls-for-help-and-dies-as-nurses-laugh-video-shows.html

The vid- family posted speaks for itself.
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marybourg

(12,631 posts)
1. As the spouse of an elderly
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 10:10 AM
Nov 2017

person and neighbor of many others, I know there is covert informal euthanasia being conducted in hospitals and rehabs.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
2. euthanasia means "good death".It is torture when anyone, says"I can't breath",& professional doesn't
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 10:24 AM
Nov 2017

immediately assist. (including Police) Murder when they die. aggravated murder when they laugh, and/or worse- ignore the dying person.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
6. thats why 24/7 cameras 'caregivers' are aware of & CAN'T control-improves care in our world.
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 10:48 AM
Nov 2017

Hidden cams are to late to save people.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
8. Cams should be required. Even if a sick person has strong advocates constantly checking-
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 11:01 AM
Nov 2017

caregivers are caught, (can be caught) making mistakes that can be deadly to fragile people.

marybourg

(12,631 posts)
10. In my spouse' s assisted living group home,
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 02:40 PM
Nov 2017

there are 2 cameras trained on his bed, but I don't think they record, just for the manager to check up on the caregivers in real time. But, taking their cue from the manager, they are patient and caring.

Archae

(46,327 posts)
3. Is it possible this was racist in origin?
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 10:29 AM
Nov 2017

Not whites being racist, rather this looks like black nurses being racist toward an old white guy.

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