Death after 2-hour ER wait ruled a HOMICIDE

[MountainLaurel]

A coroner's jury has declared the death of a heart attack victim who spent almost two hours in a hospital waiting room to be a homicide.

Beatrice Vance, 49, died of a heart attack, but the jury at a coroner's inquest ruled Thursday that her death also was "a result of gross deviations from the standard of care that a reasonable person would have exercised in this situation."

A spokeswoman for Vista Medical Center in Waukegan, where Vance died July 29, declined to comment on the ruling.

Vance had waited almost two hours for a doctor to see her after complaining of classic heart attack symptoms -- nausea, shortness of breath and chest pains, Deputy Coroner Robert Barrett testified.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/15/er.homicide.ap/index.html

:wow: :wow: :wow:

So, this is just a coroner's board ruling on the cause of death, but that's still pretty goddamn brave of them.