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Waiting-Room Death At Kings County Hospital Prompts Criminal Probe

New York Times | ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York

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A criminal investigation has begun into the death of a patient on a waiting room floor at a city-run psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn last year, the B...

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Death by Neglect

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Overmedication, Mental Health, Kings County Hospital Center, New York Civil Liberties Union, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Flophouses, Health, Esmin Green, Psychiatric Drugs, Hospitals, New York City and State Mental Health Systems, Parkinsonism, Living News
Jay Neugeboren

My brother Robert has been a patient in the NYC mental health systems for the past 46 years, and though outraged by Esmin Green's death, I'm not surprised -- people with mental illness remain the stepchildren of the medical system.

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The Medical System Meltdown

Paul Peete | Posted 07.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Universal Health Care, Obama, Mccain, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Emergency Room Death, Gramm, Esmin Green, Edith Rodriguez, Health, Kings County Hospital Center, Home News
Paul Peete

If McCain is allowed to determine our future medical care, we will continue to suffer as a nation from a system designed to cater to only the smallest percentage of the very most wealthy people on earth.

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