"The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the
hospital, said six people have been fired as a result, including
security personnel and members of the medical staff.

The psychiatric unit at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn had already
been a subject of complaints by advocates for the mentally ill.

A state agency, the New York State Mental Hygiene Legal Service, and
the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit a year ago, calling
the psychiatric center "a chamber of filth, decay, indifference and
danger.""

~ San Francisco Chronicle

"Health and Hospitals Corp. officials suspended and fired hospital
staffers involved.

Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office,
said a criminal civil rights investigation into KCHC, which had
started earlier based on other complaints, will now also look at the
death.

A spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney's office said any
suspected criminality referred to it by the Department of
Investigation would be prosecuted. A DOI spokeswoman said the agency
was "aware" of the incident."

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyment025749094jul02,0,4276078.story

Esmin Green's death:
The hospital chief responds

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/triage/2008/07/esmin-greens-de.html

I dunno; I contacted Ann Sullivan MD once, and she ignored me.

In as much as Americans are dying while lying in wait for 12,  24, 36,
and 48 hours or more in ER waiting rooms ALL across america,  I
question the motives of those distributing videotapes of deaths while
lying in wait for DAYS in ER waiting rooms of certain select
hospitals,  but, not ALL of them.

No one knows better than I that entrusting someones life to any of
America's lying,  theiving,  murdering health care workers is akin to
playing a game of russian rouelette.

HOWEVER,  playing a game of Russian Roulette is well worth playing
when your blood is gushing out from all the bullet holes your body is
riddled with as a result of another day of life in one of the many war
zones the United Pathocracy of America has turned your local
neighborhood into,  most especially,  if you'll most likely be dead
before you can be transported to a hospital outside your "hood",  and,
the conditions at all the other publicly hospitals aren't any better
then the conditions at the hospitals being shut down.

But,  apparently,  a decision may have been made to close yet another
county hospital serving an innercity neighborhood,  so,  a video of a
death while lying in wait at that hospital was distributed to the
mainstream media to engender public outrage to legitimize the decision
to close that hospital.

There can't possibly exist any question that the distribution of the
video was in service of the evil agenda of our nations pathocrats,
because that story was carried by the ministry of disinformation a/k/a
the mainstream media and the main stream media hasn't carried a story
that didn't serve the evil agenda of the United Pathocrats of America
since the pathocrats installed Reagon in the oval office in 1980.

So if the video wasn't distributed to garner public outrage to
legitimize the pathocracy's prior decision to close Kings County
Hospital,  then,  the video was distributed for a more sinister
motive.

So I peruse all the other propagandist garbage our Ministry of
Disinformation a/k/a the Mainstream Media is inindating us with to see
if I can figure out what the hell this video was distributed to HYPE.

My first discovery is all the local news articles describing all the
americans who have filed suit for the release of video's showing the
death of their loved one while lying in wait for an eternity in an ER
waiting room ,  where their loved ones efforts to advocate for
treatment were ignored,  rebuked and/or dealt with by having the
"Bouncers" standing guard over the ER waiting room either,  escort the
patient loved ones advocating treatment of them to the hospitals
holding cell,  or,  escort both the patient and their advocate out the
hospital front door.

The fact that the Ministry of Disinformation aka Major News Outlets
didn't and isn't carrying any of the news articles describing all the
many americans fighting tooth and nail with authorities for the
release of videotapes where bystanders efforts to advocate for the
dying american had been ignored,  rebuked,  placed in a holding tank,
or,  escorted out of the hospital by bouncers,  while a woman dying
while lying in wait where bystanders hadn't advocated immediate
treatment was distributed indicates the motive for world wide
distribution of the video was to expose the lack of action of the
bystanders, while neglecting to mention the fact that those "Bouncers"
who stand guard over ER waiting rooms are employed to escort anyone
who continues to advocate for someones immediate care after being
ignored and/or rebuked by staff,  to a holding cell,  OR,  to escort
both the patient and their advocate out the front door of the
hospital.

So the motive for flashing this particular video around the globe was
NOT to showcase the depraved indiffence of the pathocrats while the
woman died lying in wait!

No sirree bob!

Their motive for flashing this particular video around the world was
to cast those hungry,  tired,  and/or infirm bystanders in a harsh
light,  in spite of the fact that it was 5-6 A.M in the morning,
and,  unlike the staff, all those bystanders had ALSO been lying in
wait in that ER waiting room for a day, or two,  or three,  during
which time, they had been or witnessed others being ignored,
rebuked,  and/or bounced out the door or escorted to a holding tank
for advocating for quicker medical treatment for themselves or others.

Any confirming evidence?

Yep!

Simultaneously the NY Times and a slew of other media outfits inundate
us with propagandist trash referencing the propagandist Milgram
experiement to persuade readers that the average person possesses the
capacity to do what the psychopaths attending yale do, when it just
ain't so.

We already know from honest research,  that a mere 5% of soldiers do
all the shooting,  and,  that the other 95% of soldiers choose to let
the other army's soldiers kill them,  rather then kill anyone.

This causes the ratio of psychopaths to average people to increase
dramatically over a two hundred year period if and when it's country
waged war every twenty years or so.......since the psychopaths from
both sides killed all the non-psychopaths on both sides.

The fact that 95% of soldiers would rather die then kill another human
being IRRITATED the psychopaths in charge of the US Armed Forces.

Hence,  50 years of bogus research to alter the behavior of the 95% of
people who rather die then kill another.

Hence,  the Milgram Study...

At Yale,  where the psychopaths of the previous generation send their
sons and daughters,  to ensure they rub elbows and form social
networks with the SPOOKS who coopted Yale for The Company.

At Yale,  where students compete to out-psychopath one another, to
receive an invite to join the skull and bones club.

At Yale,  where they fried the brains, and worse of those children
they performed ghastly experiments on in hopes of creating sleepers.

So let's do a study using a population with the highest concentrating
of psychopaths in the entire world,  therefore,  a group comprised of
a high percentage of people we already know would be willing to shock
the hell out of whoever with sadistic glee,  then,  pass off the
preordained results AS IF it's evidence of what the average person
would do,  to falsely persuade the average person that they are no
different then the psychopaths.

Now that the parasitic pathocrats or 18% of americans who frolicked
with sadistic glee while they engaged in treasonous activities to
devaste the rest of the world to plunder the other 82% of all their
hard earned wealth,  are sensing their day of reckoning is swiftly
approaching,  and,  we the people want the whole lousy rotten lot of
them tried for treasin and executed as our constitution calls for,
they begin inundating us with PROPAGANDA intended to persuade us to
show mercy to psychopaths who would have us believe they are just like
us.

Hence the images  of the woman dying while lying in wait in an ER
waiting room while others look on is being flashed round the world
while no mention is made of the fact,  that the pathocrats accountable
who exposed  their depraved indifference to human life work shifts,
whereas the bystanders those images were distributed to cast in a
harsh light,  were hungry,  tired,  and sick people who also been
waiting  24,  48,  72 hours to see a physician,  during which time
they had been beaten down by the BOUNCERS employed to stand guard over
them,  and,  employed to react to anyone who attempts to advocate for
swifter treatment for anyone after requests for swifter treatment were
ignored or rebuked,   out the hospital front door,  or,  to a holding
cell for the police to take away---in service of the pathocracy's evil
agenda.

It's disgusting!

New York home-town papers do not seem to be covering this story in
depth, especially the New York Times, which has provided the least
coverage and follow-up.

http://news.google.com/news?tab=wn&ned=us&hl=en&ned=us&q=%22esmin+green%27&btnG=
Search+News

"She will not die in vain," said Geneive Brown Metzger, the consul
general for Jamaica.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/06/esmin.funeral/?iref=mpstoryview

~ * See what others are saying ...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=%22esmin+green%22&btnG=Search+News

~ * Don't forget ...

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=esmin+green&btnG=Search+News

From The Gadsen Times,
Gadsen, Alabama

Psychiatric care must improve
July 9, 2008

The image is stark.

A woman lying face down in the floor of a hospital emergency room, and
people stepping over and around her. A security guard gives her a
nudge with his foot, then walks on.

It took an hour for anyone to notice Esmin Elizabeth Green was dead.
And it was all captured on videotape at the Kings County Hospital
psychiatric emergency room in New York.

The hospital’s excuse — everyone was too busy to notice. The emergency
room is so busy, the waiting room so overcrowded, patients often sleep
wherever they can.

That’s not an excuse, it’s a symptom.

It’s a symptom of the nationwide failure of the medical community,
governments, law enforcement and society as a whole to fully address
the needs of those who have mental illnesses.

A psychiatric emergency room is designed to treat those in crisis. Yet
in Kings County Hospital — and facilities like it throughout the
nation — patients wait hours to be seen and evaluated. It is believed
Green had been waiting 24 hours before she died.

We’d like to say, “Oh, that’s New York, that wouldn’t happen here.”

Could it?

No hospital in the vicinity has a psychiatric emergency room, so that
scenario is unlikely.

What is more likely is that a person with a serious mental illness
such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder would go unnoticed and
untreated at all until he or she comes to the attention of law
enforcement.

Alabama is so underserved by mental health professionals that it can
take weeks to get an evaluation. If that evaluation shows no immediate
threat, it can take months to see a psychiatrist and be prescribed the
medications that can make the difference between going to work or
curling up in bed, unable to function in society.

Those months can mean the difference between life and death, or at
least life and a living death.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness grades each state on mental
health services.

The good news is Alabama scored above the national average in
infrastructure, earning a C to the national D. The state fell behind
the nation’s D with an F in access to information, below the nation’s D
+ to a D in services, and below the nation’s C- to a D- in recovery
support.

Providing better services will cost money. Legal movements such as
mental health parity, which would require insurance companies to cover
mental health services at the same rate as other services, could mean
higher premiums.

Building more and better psychiatric facilities, reforming the state’s
licensure process, bolstering the psychiatric programs at the state’s
teaching hospitals and providing better support services to those who
have been diagnosed with mental illnesses will cost taxpayer money.

But the state will save money in law enforcement. It could end up
saving in Medicaid and social services because people are able to
stabilize and work. Workplaces would see improved productivity if
employees were able to get better access to mental health care.
And the state could save lives.

That has to be worth it.

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20080709/NEWS/999024609/1050/OPINION

No place in medicine for bad behavior ...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2008/07/no-place-in-med.html

The New York Times
July 12, 2008
About New York

After a Death Seen on Tape, Change Is Promised
By JIM DWYER

At 6:51 on the morning of June 19, a doctor in the psychiatric
emergency room at Kings County Hospital Center wrote an order for a
chest X-ray and blood tests on Esmin Elizabeth Green, as well as
“sedation/restraints if needed.”

If needed, that is, on a corpse.

By the time that entry was made on her chart, Ms. Green had been lying
on the floor of the waiting room for 80 minutes, with no sign of life
for the last 44. See the chart [pdf] Resuscitation efforts were coming
to an end.

Ms. Green had been sitting in the waiting room for 24 hours when,
videotapes showed, she toppled out of a chair at 5:32 that morning.

aiting may have killed her: The medical examiner said on Friday that
Ms. Green developed blood clots in her legs from a long period of
physical inactivity, The Associated Press reported. These clots
traveled to her lungs. Many people spend four or five days in the
Kings County psychiatric waiting room, patient advocates say. The
medical chart from Kings County for the last hours of Ms. Green’s life
is a hive of fictions. Handwritten entries say that Ms. Green was “up
and about, went to the bathroom” at 6 a.m. and, 20 minutes later,
“sitting quietly in the waiting area.” For good measure, the chart
includes supposed figures for her blood pressure (76/38), respiratory
rate (18), and pulse (100).

Videotapes showed that actually, she was sprawled on the floor at
those times, not up and about. And if Ms. Green, 49, still had any
vital signs, no one was taking them at the times recorded on the
chart. Her first contact with a medical staff member that morning came
at 6:35, more than an hour after she hit the ground, and it consisted
of a woman nudging Ms. Green’s body with her toe.

The mayor announced that he was disgusted. The president of the Health
and Hospitals Corporation revealed that he was shocked and distressed.
Heads not only rolled: a half dozen were publicly punted clear out the
door and across Clarkson Avenue. The city has promised to pay Ms.
Green’s family, and to fix the hospital.

“I can’t explain what happened there,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
said.

Someone may need to clue Mr. Bloomberg in. This death appears to be a
result of systemic failure in two areas in which the mayor is credited
with great expertise: public health and public management.

The psychiatric service at the hospital — the only mental health
provider for many poor people in Brooklyn — has been under criminal
investigation by the Department of Justice since December; it was the
subject of a critical report by a state oversight agency last summer;
and it is the target of a detailed federal lawsuit filed in May 2007
by patient advocates.

One serious problem, the city acknowledged, is that more than 60
percent of all patients who came to the Kings County emergency room
for psychiatric services were being admitted to beds, rather than
being sent to other services outside the wards. With so many people in
the psychiatric wards, the human traffic jam spilled back to the
emergency room.

The advocates’ lawsuit said the psychiatric center was a “chamber of
filth, decay, indifference and danger.” Patients waited for days to be
admitted to a bed, the lawsuit charged, often without any toiletries
to clean themselves, and usually without any place to sleep besides a
chair.

Those who managed to get on a bed in the waiting area could not risk
leaving it even for a minute, because they were sure to find someone
else in it when they came back, the lawsuit said.

Here is what the city had to say about the lawsuit when it was filed:
“The lurid allegations in today’s lawsuit are grossly inaccurate,
irresponsible and an affront to the dedicated and caring staff of
Kings County Hospital Center,” said Alan D. Aviles, president of the
Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the city’s public
hospitals.

Given that the lawsuit reads like a chronicle of a death foretold, Mr.
Aviles was asked on Friday whether he wanted to revisit his comments
of a year ago. Ana Marengo, a spokeswoman, said he had been speaking
dismissively of claims in the lawsuit that there was feces on the
floor and no toilet paper — conditions that the city says did not
exist. Mr. Aviles did acknowledge the overcrowding, Ms. Marengo said,
and the city is trying to address it.

The city has been in discussions for months with the advocates who
brought the suit — lawyers with the New York Civil Liberties Union,
the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, and the Mental Hygiene Legal
Service.

Although some changes have been made — clean linen is now supplied on
a regular basis, a staff member has been assigned to distribute basic
toiletries, more workers are being hired — Ms. Marengo was unable to
say on Friday how long patients must wait for a bed. The goal, she
said, is to bring it down to 12 hours. The admission rate dropped to
40 percent in June, she said.

“We are committed to a transformation there that will address all
aspects of the operation — including environmental, staffing, the
culture, training, processes, security, etc. — to help prevent
something like this from happening again,” she said.

Beth Haroules and Robert Cohen, two of the lawyers who brought the
lawsuit, said the city had already had ample time.

“I have a question for Mr. Aviles,” Mr. Cohen said. “Would he be
comfortable sending his loved ones to the psychiatric emergency room
at Kings County?”

It is a question that everyone in the city ought to consider.

These are changes the city says it has made in recent months to the
psychiatric services at Kings County Hospital Center, as provided by
the office of the president of the city Health and Hospitals
Corporation, Alan D. Aviles:

Expanded space in the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program
(CPEP)

Created a separate child waiting and treatment area

Improved the lighting in the CPEP

Added thirty nurses and a new nurse educator

Contracted with a variety of agencies that provide temporary nurses in
order to enhance staffing.

Hired a consulting psychiatrist and a consulting nurse to make
clinical changes and improvements at the hospital

Added activity therapists, and has increased the hours of programming
provided in both the CPEP and on inpatient units.

Provided additional training in a number of specialties, such as
treatment of the chemically addicted mentally ill.

Added a new specialized support team assists in the treatment of
developmentally disabled or mentally retarded patients.

Trained 200 staff in non-violent crisis intervention

Reduced the number of restraints, in part by implementing a new
protocol for emergency response.

E-mail: dwyer@nytimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/nyregion/12about.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

Green came from a rural village near St. Catherine, Jamaica, in 2000,
and made her home among Brooklyn's Caribbean diaspora and the Jesus Is
Lord Sabbath Day Adventist Church, where she sang, prayed and
sometimes lived.

The eldest of 12 children and a mother of six, Green assumed the role
of matriarch when she was just 20, after her own mother died. In
Jamaica, she had been a shrewd businesswoman, establishing a
successful dress shop, a wholesale fishing business and a small import
company over the course of a decade.

Family and friends remember her as outspoken, vivacious and generous
to a fault, with a voice that could wake the dead and a love for
church and children that surpassed all else. "She was the light to
us," says her eldest daughter, Trecia, who is suing the hospital and
the city for $25 million. "She had a strength that drew everyone to
her."

In Brooklyn, Green struggled with poverty and bouts of depression that
friends say were triggered by a profound home-sickness.Having left her
own children, including a 6-year-old son, in Jamaica, she immersed
herself in the church's youth programs, where she ran activities and
led prayer sessions, and area day-care centers, where she worked on
and off over the years.

Without a green card, a permanent job or any health insurance, Green
relied on her pastor, Marilyn Johnson, and a patchwork of friends to
see her through dark times. But a fierce pride compelled her to hide
her illness from most of, them, so that even after she died, only a
handful knew the full extent of her suffering.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/145870

What can we learn from this dreadful event?

Esmin Green was involuntarily committed and was waiting for admission
to a psychiatric unit. She was, in the eyes of the world and the ER
staff, a "mental patient." This is a status that no one should ever
have. It's a stigma that leads health professionals to lose interest
in or to outright abuse the person.

She was almost certainly being administered antipsychotic or
neuroleptic drugs, such as Haldol, Risperdal, Zyprexa, Seroquel or
Geodon. The antipsychotic drugs vastly increase the death rate from
almost all causes in people taking them. How would a class of
psychiatric drugs cause an increase in the overall death rate?
~ Peter Breggin MD

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/lessons-from-the-death-of_b_11274
4.html

"A woman collapses on the floor of a psychiatric emergency room in New
York. She writhes with pain, then stops moving. You would think
somebody — another patient in the waiting room, security guards, a
physician, nurse, anybody — would have the decency to come to her
aid."
~ Editorial Board, SunSentinel

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-editajjerpatientcapsbjul19,0,175620
3.story

I looks like one patient DID rush off ... perhaps to seek help?

AMA Calls for Remedies on Bed Shortage ...

http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/43/14/5

Artist’s ‘Esmin Green Installation’
Opens This Weekend in Red Hook

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=12&id=22093

"These are just a few of the many tragic accounts of people with
mental illness who are alone, forgotten and facing death without
proper care, respect or dignity. Every day, hundreds of thousands
suffer in the same way that Esmin, Edith and Primrose have suffered.

They are the faceless and forgotten Americans. They live on the
streets, in shelters, in substandard housing, in jails and prisons.
Why do we allow it? Why don't we do enough to prevent it?"

~ Bob Sharpe,
President of the Florida Council for Community Mental Health, based in
Tallahassee

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-forum27mentalsbjul27,0,7446233.story

"Back in the sixties, psychologists dubbed the tendency for people to
walk away from a horror, expecting that someone better equipped would
come to take care of it, "bystander effect," or "Kitty Genovese
syndrome," after the case that came to symbolize New Yorkers' — and
Americans' — apathy about getting "involved."

"The case touched on a fundamental issue of the human condition, our
primordial nightmare,'' legendary City University of New York
psychology professor Stanley Milgram said at a conference on "Bad
Samaritanism" in 1984.

"If we need help, will those around us stand around and let us be
destroyed or will they come to our aid? Are those other creatures out
there to help us sustain our life and values, or are we individual
flecks of dust just floating around in a vacuum?''"

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/08/what_todays_monster_news_tells.html

Another Dead Soilder, this time in North Carolina ...

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/08/mental