NEW YORK (CNN) -- To people around the world who have seen the video, Esmin Green is a symbol of a health-care system that seems to have failed horribly.
Fellow churchmembers say they served as a family for Esmin Green, shown in 2007, after she left Jamaica.
1 of 2 Green, 49, is shown rolling off a waiting room chair at King County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on June 19. She lands face-down on the floor, convulsing.
Surveillance video captures her lying on the floor for more than an hour as several hospital workers see her and appear to ignore her. She died there.
But to fellow members of her church, she was known as "Sister Green." Together, they served as a family for her in the decade after she left Jamaica for New York.
Green left six children in Jamaica -- the youngest now 14. She had been sending money home.
Her oldest daughter, 31-year-old Tecia Harrison, told CNN that she cannot bear to think of her mother's last moments.
"I haven't seen it, and I don't think I have the heart or mind to watch it because that's my mother there," Harrison said. "That's the woman who gave birth to me 31 years ago. I cannot watch that."
Green was involuntarily admitted to the hospital's psychiatric emergency department June 18 for "agitation and psychosis."
Friend Peter Pilgrim says he saw Green a few days before her death. He says she was struggling with losing her job at a day care center and had been forced to move out of her apartment.
"Esmin Green is a beautiful person," he said. "She has a good heart. She loved people, and she loved children."
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View Single PostPosted: Fri, Jul 04 2008, 12:32 AM Post subject:
Disgusting considering that this is not best practice regarding residency or insurance. ER'S are required to intake any pt regardless of the above! And then proceed with Triage! Again our staff our majorly burned our and believe it or not their hands are tied!
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View Single PostPosted: Fri, Jul 04 2008, 12:40 AM Post subject:
Read about this, the video is appauling to watch. You know something is wrong with america when an old lady falls to the floor and no one helps her. The people working there deserve whats coming to them.
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