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Woman dies in ER after 911 dispatchers refuse to send her to another hospital
Quality Improvement Monitor, June 15, 2007
A woman who lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a Los Angeles hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to contact an ambulance to take her to another facility, MSNBC reported.
Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died of a perforated bowel on May 9 at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. Her death was ruled accidental by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Relatives said Rodriguez was bleeding from the mouth and writhing in pain for 45 minutes while she was at a hospital waiting area. Experts have said she could have survived had she been treated early enough.
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