Monday, July 26, 2004

Man Dies in Hospital Waiting Room

Robert Johnson entered the Southwest General Health Center in suburban Cleveland and sat down in the waiting room. Seventeen hours later, a nurse found he was dead. Police say he died of natural causes, whatever that means. The only thing I can figure is that he died from old age while waiting to see a doctor.

There's something seriously wrong if a health care facility has someone in the waiting room for 17 hours before somebody checks on him. I surely wouldn't recommend Southwest General Health Center for any emergency treatment nor any other treatment for that matter. Dying of old age while in the waiting room has been a running joke for decades. I didn't know that it really does happen.

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