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The Inhumanity of Nothing: The Death of the Woman in the Kings County ER, Editorial by T. L. Kittle
Date:7/7/2008

LOS ANGELES, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued today by T. L. Kittle:

If someone said, "describe a murder," most people would describe someone doing something to someone else: "Man shoots..." or "Woman strangles..." Murder is rarely thought of in the absence of something -- in the doing of nothing -- yet nothingness can be as effective in killing as a gun.

Denying someone access to something they need -- like food, water, air, and when someone is ill, medical care -- is as efficient as taking a bat and beating them to death.

As evident in the surveillance video from Kings County hospital, Esmin Green's death in the ER on June 19 is an example of nothing in its lethal form -- a death that's indicative of what's rampant throughout the medical industry: people being murdered through denial of care. (In addition to blatant neglect, people are also being denied medical care through false negative test results, physician's orders wrongly being overruled, blaming the victim's mentality (i.e. -- 'you're just suffering from anxiety') as well as other such denial of care based philosophies.)

While Kings County hospital and the staff should be held accountable for their actions, the most honorable way to pay tribute to the horror of what Ms. Green endured (and try to safeguard this behavior from happening again) is by taking a moment to reflect on the stresses that have pushed hospital staff to such demon behavior in the first place.

What's driving this?

A number of reasons, but the major one is lack of adequate funding for hospitals. Starving the hospitals fosters anger, resentment, and cruelty towards the ill -- the people who have come to them for help.

Neglecting the needs of the hospitals is breeding hospitals neglecting the needs of the patients. While it's true that everyone should have the right to medical care, the hospitals need money to function -- to keep their lights on, the electricity goi
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SOURCE T. L. Kittle
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