In 2008 49-year-old Esmin Green died an excruciating death on the floor of a waiting room at Kings County Hospital. The shocking story drew national attention thanks to a security video in which Green slumped and fell to the ground, was ignored by two guards and a doctor who walk by, and finally kicked by a nurse who checks on her (after she had already died from blood clots). In 2009 the city settled with Green's family for $2 million dollars and now, another two years later, hospital workers are being prosecuted for allegedly trying to cover up the death by falsifying records.
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Nurses Who Walked By Dying Woman Face Charges
City Settles For $2 Million In Death Of Neglected Patient
The city agreed to a $2 million settlement with the family of Esmin Green, a woman who died after being ignored in a waiting room at Kings County Hospital's psychiatric ward. Green had been waiting for almost a day last July until she received medical attention which came too late. Her decline—falling off the seating and writhing on the floor until she was lifeless— was captured on surveillance video, which showed a number of staffers ignore her; they only acted after another patient alerted them.
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