Surviving the Emergency Room

A woman recently died after collapsing on the floor of a hospital in Brooklyn, and the shocking story and video are igniting a national conversation about the quality and speed of the care we receive in emergency rooms.

In this video, Katie talks with CBS Medical Correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about getting the care you need, when you need it.

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• emergency
• hospital
• couric
• katie
• lapook
• cbs
• brooklyn

[DrFrostyNutz]

Lets not blame the people clogging the system looking for drugs, strung out on crack or alcohol for the 8th time this month, or women complaining their period is more painful this time.

[jetstarrmd]

Its awful what happened to in that incident. I worked bedside , er, and my specialty is psychiatry. Again I am not defending what happened. All I am trying to say. Is that I wrote a 50 page report the psyciatric abuse of black and lower income class people. As an MD I will defend my college's. They are overwhelmed the system is bad.. And we try our best. I am disgusted. In medicine there is a saying and it is true. You win some and you some. The public needs to understand our position.

[jetstarrmd]

I am a MD and you just cant save every one nor prevent every incidnet, doctors feel bad for this. That is life. You win some you loose some. I am sorry for this incident. One must make speek up and be rude if needed to recive imidiate emergency medical care.

[Daisy72762]

Not necessarily true!!!!! i had a major seizure in my docs office and was sent to the ER. I was placed in the hallway for over 2 hours waiting for a bed!!!!!!

[Daisy72762]

You want to know WHY this woman died?Because people are going to the ER for EVERYTHING!!! Flu,colds,etc. WHAT THE FUCK!!! IF you are having a stroke,a heart attack,THAT is an EMERGENCY!!!!!! Stomach flu is not a damn emergency,neither is a cold!!!! Lets be real people!

[butifarra61]

people just try to stay healthy and away from any hospital. those who work there are just making $ and really are too stressed out to care about every little detail. Once you are there or a love one is there just make sure you are constantly questioning every little action they take. peace!

[apocalyptichybrid3]

That 47 million is an estimate given by The National Coalition on Health Care. These numbers do not include illegal aliens. And the hourly or salary choice is almost as non-existent as employers offering a good health insurance plan. I worked for a tower/antenna construction company for 8 years and they gave us this choice and I also picked hourly because it was a much bigger paycheck when the weather was good at least, but it also included benefits. Company went bankrupt last year. Go figure.

[apocalyptichybrid3]

Well free is better than none. And I never praised the French health care system because I know nothing about it. And there are bad experiences in all systems. Walter Reed? This is a military hospital and we all know our government doesn't give a shit about our military, other than the hardware at least. Give me Taiwan's, Japan's, Great Britain's, Germany's, or Switzerland's health care system over America's any day. Anything is better than what we have.

[oooooDisgruntledMonk]

Lol, please believe the hype. Free isn't better. I've used the French health care system while I lived there and my brother in law had to try to get help in England while he lived there; both of us had horrible experiences. You've seen how bureaucrats handle hospitals. Please don't spread Walter Reed from sea to shining sea.

[oooooDisgruntledMonk]

I hope you raised cain with the hospital about that nurse. There's incompetents in every profession and it's up to all of us to help weed them out.