Mental health care in America -- A Tragic story.

Описание: It seems like every week there is a story about someone with mental illness being miss-treated, prescribed incorrect medication, treated with indifference or ignored (in some cases to death) by the very places they went to for help.

There was Esmin Green who died at Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital after sitting for nearly 24 hours she collapsed from her chair and slowly died on June 19 2008. She laid on the floor at the Brooklyn hospital for an hour before a nurse finally checked her pulse. After an autopsy and weeks of tests, the medical examiner's office concluded Friday that Green was killed by pulmonary thromboemboli, blood clots that form in the legs and travel through the bloodstream to the lungs. (Ignored to death?)

Then there was 50-year-old Steven Sabock A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom. Surveillance video showed hospital staff watching television and playing cards just a few feet away. (Ignored to death?)

And then in 2001 there was Patience Lucas she went to ECMC (Erie County Medical Center) for help and was treated with apathy and indifference to her condition. Minutes after "treatment" she was dead. We love her and miss her.